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In every case where insurance was made mandatory, prices went up.
by iwwr 16y ago
In every case where insurance was made mandatory, prices went up.
- DennisP 16y ago[citation needed] Insurance is mandatory in Germany, France, and Japan. Germany spends about 13% of their GDP on healthcare, Japan spends 6%, and France is in the middle. The U.S. spends 17%, and falls far behind the others in results. Source: The Healing of America by T.R. Reid.
- metageek 16y ago>The U.S. spends 17%, and falls far behind the others in results. Although you have to wonder how much of the results difference is due to our lousy diet.
- DennisP 16y agoTrue, but stats like "survival rates after diagnosis of major disease" seem to focus fairly well on healthcare quality. And Japan has a pretty old population, with a lot of smokers and a very high-sodium diet. In any case, our lousy diet is partly due to agricultural subsidies that make processed and fast food cheaper than raw produce. A really good healthcare reform would fix that too. If we really wanted to be smart, we'd phase out coal while we were at it. Estimates for health problems caused by the coal industry are pretty startling.