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Access to leading-edge potential treatments is a minor concern in health care: few need it, fewer qualify, and fewer are helped. Even then, your statement is f
by fatbird 8y ago
Access to leading-edge potential treatments is a minor concern in health care: few need it, fewer qualify, and fewer are helped. Even then, your statement is false: leading edge medical research is carried out in all countries with universal health care.
The U.S. has an infant mortality rate worse than 43 other countries because large numbers of pregnant women can't access routine prenatal care. That's but one example of what real health care concerns are like.
- ams6110 8y agoCan't access, or don't? Medicaid will pay for prenatal care, and there are other options as well.
- fatbird 8y agoCan't. The U.S. has well documented problems with the working poor being unable to afford insurance or qualify for medicare; even if they qualify, medicare is not universally accepted (because it doesn't pay market rates) and there's no legal requirement for medical professionals to do so.
- conanbatt 8y agoIts a quote from the article.