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What is your criticism of American doctors and hospitals or Medicare? What does a nominal bill have to do with underserving health needs or a massive bill to th
by perl4ever 6y ago
What is your criticism of American doctors and hospitals or Medicare? What does a nominal bill have to do with underserving health needs or a massive bill to the patient? American patients may be underserved, but the raw figures for casualties from COVID aren't justifying the idea that our system is radically worse.
It appears to me that you're just saying in very general terms, that healthcare in the US is terrible, and making it clear that is inherently true irrespective of whether government provided coverage is available.
If American health care is terrible because it is American, then the criticism is pure hate and cannot be constructive in any way. It used to be that the criticism was framed in the context that sensible developed countries cover healthcare for everyone and the US should get on board with this common sense modern approach.
Coverage isn't a totally solved problem; that's not something to dispute. But where it is solved, the rhetoric, the pat phrases, should change, they should react. If the US is terrible just as ever, then the reasons were never serious. They were rationalizations for pure antipathy.