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> Dude, look at the topline numbers. They are completely fucked.

Of course they are. Healthcare costs in the US are completely out of control. But if you want a better system you need to understand what causes it to be the way it is. Keeping every expensive thing about the existing system and just changing how the money is transferred is not going to fix it.

> Meanwhile, 10/10 developed nation socialist healthcare systems are comparatively cheaper and better.

They are cheaper because of specific flaws in the US system that cause costs to be high, which are real and need to be fixed but are independent of socialization. Low deductible insurance that encourages unnecessary tests and involves "insurance" in low cost routine transactions (currently caused by tax laws encouraging employer-provided insurance, but Medicare doesn't make it better), liability rules that encourage doctors to do the same unnecessary tests, certificate of need laws and other limits on the supply of doctors, the high cost of getting FDA approvals, lack of price transparency etc.

And the patient outcomes in the US system are better for anyone who has health insurance. The net outcomes are worse only because the outcomes for people without health insurance are very bad, because the independent flaws cause routine care to be prohibitively expensive and people without insurance often go untreated, which brings down the average dramatically.

That is completely broken and we need to fix it, but how about we do that without throwing away the part where the patient outcomes are better for the majority of people who are actually participating in the healthcare system?




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