> Government and private insurance raises prices. "Top 10 Countries Where Insulin is Most Expensive (2018 RAND Corporation)[1]: United States — $98.70

> Government and private insurance raises prices. "Top 10 Countries Where Insulin is Most Expensive (2018 RAND Corporation)[1]: United States — $98.70 Chile — $21.48 Mexico — $16.48 Japan — $14.40 Switzerland — $12.46 Canada — $12.00 Germany — $11.00 Korea — $10.30 Luxembourg — $10.15 Italy — $10.03 " Maybe government run healthcare is more expensive than (something) but your "both sides are bad" is missing how unbalanced the sides are. "In 2016, the U.S. spent nearly twice as much on health care as other high-income countries, yet had poorer population health outcomes. [...] Using international data primarily from 2013 to 2016, the researchers compared the U.S. with 10 other high-income countries — the U.K., Canada, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland — on approximately 100 metrics that underpin health care spending. The study confirmed that the U.S. has substantially higher spending, worse population health outcomes, and worse access to care than other wealthy countries. [...] Life expectancy in the U.S. was the lowest of all 11 countries in the study, at 78.8 years; [...] the proportion of the U.S. population with health insurance was 90 percent, lower than all the other countries, which ranged from 99 to 100 percent coverage. For several commonly used brand-name pharmaceuticals, the U.S. had substantially higher prices than other countries, often double the next-highest price." - https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more-for-health-care-with-worse-population-health-outcomes/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more... [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-insulin-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-i...