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The worst of both worlds would be all of those problems + a bill that bankrupts you at the end. Which is, for what it's worth, what the US is like. The US medic

The worst of both worlds would be all of those problems + a bill that bankrupts you at the end. Which is, for what it's worth, what the US is like. The US medical system is also ludicrously oversubscribed and has insane wait times for lots and lots of routine health things.

gottorf 3y ago
> The US medical system is also ludicrously oversubscribed and has insane wait times for lots and lots of routine health things. The number of doctors per capita in the US increased a lot for decades[0], but stalled over the past 10 years. I wonder if the blame lies at the AMA's feet. For what it's worth, my personal experience with routine medical care hasn't been too bad in three (very different) states, though it's unclear to me what my expectations should be. It seems like the US is worse than average for primary care wait times and better than average for specialist wait times among developed countries[2]. [0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2020-2021/DocSt.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2020-2021/DocSt.pdf [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/186092/active-physicians-by-age-in-the-us-since-1975/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/186092/active-physicians... [2]: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/242e3c8c-en/1/3/2/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/242e3c8c-en&_csp_=e90031be7ce6b03025f09a0c506286b0&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/242e3c8c-en/1/3/2/index....