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And for-profit insurance companies (in the US) use QALY to decide what to treat and whom rather than leaving it to the discretion of patient's doctors to decide
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
And for-profit insurance companies (in the US) use QALY to decide what to treat and whom rather than leaving it to the discretion of patient's doctors to decide what care is necessary.
My mother and late grandmother both independently voiced that they experienced medical ageism and disrespectful, dismissive treatment by doctors, hospitals, and care providers.
- parineum 3y agoI don't see any reason to believe that for-profit insurance is playing any role at all in that since countries with socialized medicine aren't regularly seeing 120 year olds.
- jabradoodle 3y agoThat's a weird benchmark to set. FWIW, USA is ~47th globally in life expectancy.
- parineum 3y agoIn the context of the article, it's not weird. Regardless, the USA is only a couple years behind and, with the way life expectancy is measured, that's much better explained by inner-city violence than it is by healthcare.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoThe US is an aberration because it has decreasing life expectancy, much higher rates of violence, paradoxically expensive and less effective healthcare, and a wider range of socioeconomics and lifestyles than other advanced economies. The US isn't "behind" so much as "falling" despite having every innate advantage apart from a political system that doesn't trade gold bars for votes from foreign countries.