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The US doesn’t typically spend on health care. It spends on sick care targeting things which can be dealt with via medications or surgery. For example, most do
by mfer 3y ago
The US doesn’t typically spend on health care. It spends on sick care targeting things which can be dealt with via medications or surgery.
For example, most doctors don’t help people avoid heart disease. Instead they watch for it or things they can treat with drugs that can lead to it. Then try to help people manage it that. I’m not blaming doctors, it’s the system.
If we targeted health care and generally good health over the course of our lives, cost could radically go down. And people would have far fewer issues.
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- mattmaroon 3y agoMedicare and Medicaid
- pharmakom 3y agoTotally agree. The biggest failings in the US are around public health. In the US, the path of least resistance is to drive everywhere, sit at a desk and eat fast food. It’s really hard as an individual to overcome these forces.
- tyoma 3y agoWhile it would be better for people who would live longer and healthier lives, it would not cost less. The reason is the same reason that smokers actually saved the health system money (source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199710093371506 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199710093371506). People who live longer use more and more expensive healthcare.
- mfer 3y agoThat assumes high chronic diseases from other things causing high health care costs. What if we got rid of most chronic diseases? Most are caused by lifestyle but they’ve become topics we just don’t talk about. They’re taboo.