idgi
that's patently false and you know it
the US has excellent quality care and the only reason it costs so high is a combination of insurance forgetery lobbying congress and the ACA forcing state line monopolies which naturally drive up prices as there is no competition
of course the solution to this is to hand control over healthcare to the government, because it works (hardly) in Canada and the UK, so that means it must work in the US. Makes sense
stop blaming the ACA, US healthcare was super stuffty beforehand and what I'm saying is not false at all
you guys are literally the only rich nation on earth that doesn't have cheap and affordable healthcare, you can keep peddling the same lines as the billionaires that keep jacking up the prices do but that wont change the fact that you guys pay out the ass for terrible service.
you have 0 experience with canadian healtcare or UK healthcare and i can say that what you are saying is blatantly false.
take for example this study on how the us spends out the ass for the
exact same care
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/reports/2019/04/08/468302/excess-administrative-costs-burden-u-s-health-care-system/Conclusion
Although estimates vary, a large body of evidence shows that the United States is spending about twice as much as needed on the administration of health care. Other nations enjoy world-class health care systems while spending a fraction of what the United States does on governance, billing, and insurance.
A structural overhaul of how health care is financed and priced that includes key features of other countries’ systems—whether one payer or many—would go a long way toward eliminating excess administrative costs. Simplifying the payment system should be an essential part of future health reform and would make the U.S. system work better for taxpayers and patients alike.
On top of administrative costs, you are basically shilling for big pharma my dude, because you guys actually don't have regulation or a government that actually bargains with companies to effectively reduce the price of pills, you pay absurd prices for drugs.
You guys literally have people trekking to Canada to get insulin at a lower price so they can
survive.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5249662/americans-driving-canada-insulin-prices/Nystrom said that she bought a nearly identical product — one vial of insulin from Novo Nordisk — that cost US$320 in the U.S. and $30 in Canada.
If you tell me: "if we get rid of all this regulation, the prices of healthcare and drugs will drop" you are absurdly wrong, because healthcare companies historically don't have any incentive to treat people correctly or not to make people die, they are there to
make money. Saying it will all magically fix itself with the invisible hand of the free market is as much of a "pie-in-the-sky" idea as anarchists that think everyone will just co-operate once all government is abolished.
Free markets don't account for externalities and the incentives definitely don't align to keep people alive because profits will always come first. Why don't you accept that single-payer systems have worked
wonderfully in every country they have been tried, and stop clinging onto the archaic idea that the free market will fix everything?
for the record: there are many more things wrong with american healthcare but you cant just always dodge them by saying "just remove regulation bro"
