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Goddamn your healthcare system is fucked up.
by thinkmcfly 4y ago
Goddamn your healthcare system is fucked up.
- strombofulous 4y agoIs it? Isn't this exactly the outcome you'd hope for? Individual consumers pay basically nothing and companies are still incentivized to innovate and create new medicines
- ceejayoz 4y agoIndividual consumers aren’t paying nothing. The cost is just being hidden from them so they don’t flip over the tables. They pay via premiums - mine went up to $2,792/month this year - or if their employer pays those, via the resulting wage impact. And, as a result, we spend 2-3x what the rest of the OECD spends on healthcare - public and private spending - with roughly the same health outcomes.
- ceejayoz 4y agoAgreed. Injecting a milliliter of fluid worth as much as a new car makes me twitchy.