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Reading your comment, it just occurred to me that I don't know if there is any country where healthcare works well without government intervention. We always t
by RobertoG 9y ago
Reading your comment, it just occurred to me that I don't know if there is any country where healthcare works well without government intervention.
We always talk about the USA vs. Europe, but I don't know if there are other examples that we can borrow.
When you talk about market directed healthcare, do you have any example in mind?
- humanrebar 9y agoHas it even been tried in a developed country in the last 100 years? The US has had distorted markets dating back to the 1930s at least.
- Jotra7 9y agoNo true Scotsman all up in here.
- mdpopescu 9y agoI can only talk about the situation here in Romania. State health care is "free" (that is, everybody pays 6.5% of their income as health insurance) and of very poor quality. You have to bribe everyone - doctors, nurses, cleaning people - in order to get any treatment. Private health care is somewhat more expensive; you can either pay as needed (which is what I usually do) or you can buy private insurance. The lowest private insurance I know of is $3 / month; the highest I have heard of is about $300 / month. The latter includes emergency surgery in a foreign country (Germany or Switzerland, their doctors are considered better).