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US healthcare is a giant cash making scam, where patient health and open pricing are unimportant. If the Federal government actually cared to force the issue, w
by coldcode 5y ago
US healthcare is a giant cash making scam, where patient health and open pricing are unimportant. If the Federal government actually cared to force the issue, we might find a preference for a national unified system, in which of course the insurers and healthcare conglomerates would lose their profit. So no doubt they spend a fortune ensuring that no matter what rules appear for political reasons, they are not really enforced, and thus don't matter.
- DennisP 5y agoThe book The Healing of America examines eight different national healthcare systems. Three of the best (France, Germany, Japan), in objective terms like health outcomes and percentage of GDP spent, have a lot in common with the ACA, with one big difference: a national price list for services. Maybe a well-functioning market could accomplish the same thing but we certainly don't have that right now.
- ta988 5y agoThere is no such thing as a well-functioning market (or free market). It is repeated over and over as something that could be true, but it is like communism, nobody was ever able to get that working in reality.
- someguydave 5y agoThis article is literally proof that a free market in healthcare has not been tried.
- ta988 5y agoWas there ever a free market anywhere?
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoIt was pretty much a free market until world war two. So yeah, it has.