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Re: The USA does not have “poor healthcare”, it has expensive healthcare. It has both. We pay a lot and get less for it on average than other nations. It's don
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: The USA does not have “poor healthcare”, it has expensive healthcare.
It has both. We pay a lot and get less for it on average than other nations. It's done a few things better, like allowing newer cancer treatments, but that's an exception.
- anfilt 7y agoI would say it does a lot better than just cancer treatments. However, cost and accessibility is probably the biggest problem. Health care is also just one those things that don't follow a normal supply and demand graph. Like in the extreme if you need a certain drug or procedure to survive you will pay whatever you can. You're basically held hostage. Like take a look the costs for the latest hepatitis C treatments. It's basically extortion in my opinion.
- tabtab 7y agoTechnology and R&D are always creating new treatments, but the new ones are rarely cheap, as is true with any new technology. The first desktop laser printers cost almost as much as a car, for example. It's good to have new options, but those options do have a price. If you are well-to-do, you have a lot more options in the US than other countries, which tend to subsidize the lower end with the higher end.