Comment by sweeter

the only option to fix healthcare is to decommodify it and implement a public option where the risk pool includes everyone. There is 0 reason that the wealthiest country on the planet needs to operate at a worse level than so called "3rd world countries"

even from a purely neo-Liberal capitalist sense, this completely violates the shared fantasy of the "free market" and yet we still have people going on Joe Rogan saying stuff like "we need to deregulate the market further because this is all due to innovation being stifled through regulation" which is an absurd notion.

Every other country is eating our lunch when it comes to medical discovery and novel chemical compound discovery while the US spends all of its time and money evergreening medical patents to extend them indefinitely so they can maintain monopolistic control. I honestly just don't see a way out of this.