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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Republican Health Care Bill
« on: September 01, 2017, 02:28:16 PM »Eh, yes and no. Most of those countries have very different laws and social norms.We are at a point where the only reasonable way for the government to rein in the rampant corruption in the medical industry is to join most of the rest of the civilized world and give its people universal healthcare.
"But Roundy, governments are so more corrupt than private companies so we'd only have higher medical costs and less services!"
That's not what has been demonstrated in all of the other wealthy industrialized nations of the world (flat or round). Their governments are able to outperform us in total life expectancy and infant mortality for significantly less per capita expenditures.
Thank you,
CriticalThinker
Like lawsuits. Super common in the US, less so elsewhere so malpractice insurance isn't as bad, if at all.
Also, the companies have deals with drug makers.
And they also usually have fewer doctors.
Finally: America is 'Me First' and does not like thinking every American is worth helping.
One of the benefits of having a single payer system is collective bargaining power with pharmaceutical manufacturers. It's no great secret that Medicare gets a better deal than a small regional health insurance. Many of the lifestyle factors associated with total healthy life expectancy can be directly influenced by access to routine primary care which lowers the effects of malpractice claims. Most malpractice claims boil down to informed consent and whether communication between provider and patient was accurately recorded. In most cases, gross negligence is too hard to prove and documentation errors are used in lieu as evidence of "not meeting the accepted standards of care." Infant mortality is the real tell tale factor that we should look at. For a nation that doesn't have any wars on our soil, you would think that we would perform better than this. 50% higher than Canada & UK, 2-3x higher than many other European countries and just barely better than Slovakia.
Thank you,
CriticalThinker