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there's no discernible innovation in healthcare, at least if you go by any actual metric that would indicate that. Life expectancy in Cuba is higher than in the

there's no discernible innovation in healthcare, at least if you go by any actual metric that would indicate that. Life expectancy in Cuba is higher than in the US, infant mortality in the US is higher than in any peer country, drug death rates are higher than in most if not all comparable nations, and so on. The pharmaceutical industry might produce innovations concerning some rare diseases or whatever, but there's no discernible reason why that is, or should be paid for by the public healthcare sector.

WalterBright 4y ago
> infant mortality You have to be careful with statistics like that. I did some research on that a few years ago. Different countries define infant mortality differently. Other countries would classify many failed pregnancies as a miscarriage that the US classifies as infant mortality, for example. This is because the US is very aggressive at trying to save premature babies.