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Unfortunately, there are no free market health care countries to compare with.
by skookumchuck 8y ago
Unfortunately, there are no free market health care countries to compare with.
- Uberphallus 8y agoFortunately or not, the US is far from having free market healthcare, especially considering its public health expenditure per capita alone beats most developed countries' public and private expenditures combined.
- skookumchuck 8y agoThat's right. And before the government got massively involved in it, health care price increases pretty much matched inflation. The big ramp up in prices, that have never slowed down, started in 1968 with Medicare.
- FartyMcFarter 8y agoThere is free market health care. It's called "veterinarians". Granted this won't do for comparing all metrics, but it's still an interesting reference point. Here's one article about this: https://hbr.org/2017/01/what-the-cost-of-a-trip-to-the-vet-tells-us-about-why-human-health-care-is-so-expensive https://hbr.org/2017/01/what-the-cost-of-a-trip-to-the-vet-t...
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- pjc50 8y agoIs that even true? Is there a definition of "free market healthcare" that only the US meets?