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I'm curious how you can suggest the US government spends the most money in the world, by far, on healthcare and the simultaneously suggest there's less governme
by toolz 5y ago
I'm curious how you can suggest the US government spends the most money in the world, by far, on healthcare and the simultaneously suggest there's less government involvement.
The government is involved in every step of American healthcare. As you can imagine of a system that gets all of its funding thru companies completely overseen by regulatory bodies or thru social programs.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoCompared to a single-payer socialized system, this is less involvement - even if it is a lot of involvent.
- toolz 5y agoby what metric?
- cntainer 5y agoI didn't really suggest that the US Government spends money on healthcare, I was merely quoting the article: "Health care consumes 18% of GDP in America" Please note that the wording implies that 18% of GDP is spent on health care overall not that the US Government is spending all that money out of its pocket directly on yearly budgets. The way I understand it is that it includes both money spent by public and private actors for all health related service. I see this type of stat a warning that something might be dysfunctional within the system, and it's the government's job to get to the bottom of it.
- stefan_ 5y agoThere is some crazy amnesia here about the US healthcare system. Some 40% of the US are already covered through Medicaid/Medicare - "socialism" is long here!