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As I understand it, the US government pays more per capita for healthcare than any other rich country. And Americans don't even get free healthcare in return.

As I understand it, the US government pays more per capita for healthcare than any other rich country. And Americans don't even get free healthcare in return. I'm not sure what the solution is either, but the status quo ain't it. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022 https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2... > Health spending per person in the U.S. was nearly two times higher than in the closest country, Germany, and four times higher than in South Korea.

panick21_ 3y ago
Any idea that the US is a even any kind of approximation of a free market is ridiculous. Any study of the history of US health care makes this quite clear. That not to see that such a system would be better then some other systems, we don't really have good evidence as no major country has developed this way. There were some early interesting developments for patterns of care in the US before the current system became the dominate re-enforced system. Its also not really clear if the US switched system to something like those countries, that it could achieve the same costs. Such a reorganization would be monumental in scale requiring an US bureaucracy of a scale only matched by the US Armed Forces. Its not a problem I would want to be in charge of solving.