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Every country has for-profit elements in their healthcare system. The USA is uniquely dysfunctional in its governance. There is regulatory capture at every leve

Every country has for-profit elements in their healthcare system. The USA is uniquely dysfunctional in its governance. There is regulatory capture at every level.

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JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
> Every country has for-profit elements in their healthcare system You’re right. The Swiss system is deeply privatized, down to compulsory private insurance [1]. It just isn’t as opaque and corrupt as the American one. Part of the problem with the American system is everyone is cynical with respect to reform, and has a singular bogeyman they’re convinced explains all of the problem, with zero room for multiple causation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
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- jancsika 5mo ago
  > and has a singular bogeyman they’re convinced explains all of the problem, with zero room for multiple causation Not sure about that. But each person tends to have something like a single sentinel flag. E.g.: does medicare negotiate drug prices? And if there's a change for the better, they won't believe it's anything but a short term grift until they read it back as "true" from at least 16 different threads over the course of, say, 9 consecutive years. Given that their representatives currently use phrases like "medicare advantage" to mean "off traditional medicare and on private insurance," that caution seems warranted.
  - JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
    > that caution It's not caution. It's reductiveness that contributes to the problem.
chomp 5mo ago
This is an obtuse comment because it doesn't mean anything. Yes we all know that every country has for-profit elements. We also all know that every country has social elements in their system. And non-profit elements.
- t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
  Correct. My comment is in reply to an assertion that is uninformative for exactly this reason.
skeledrew 5mo ago
> Every country has for-profit elements in their healthcare system You might want to check that. In Cuba's case, not really unless you focus on their export of medical services. But for the greater case it's totally free. And qualitatively better than what the US provides.

Every country has for-profit elements in their healthcare system. The USA is uniquely dysfunctional in its governance. There is regulatory capture at every level.

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JumpCrisscross 5mo ago

> Every country has for-profit elements in their healthcare system You’re right. The Swiss system is deeply privatized, down to compulsory private insurance [1]. It just isn’t as opaque and corrupt as the American one. Part of the problem with the American system is everyone is cynical with respect to reform, and has a singular bogeyman they’re convinced explains all of the problem, with zero room for multiple causation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland

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jancsika 5mo ago
> and has a singular bogeyman they’re convinced explains all of the problem, with zero room for multiple causation Not sure about that. But each person tends to have something like a single sentinel flag. E.g.: does medicare negotiate drug prices? And if there's a change for the better, they won't believe it's anything but a short term grift until they read it back as "true" from at least 16 different threads over the course of, say, 9 consecutive years. Given that their representatives currently use phrases like "medicare advantage" to mean "off traditional medicare and on private insurance," that caution seems warranted.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
  > that caution It's not caution. It's reductiveness that contributes to the problem.

chomp 5mo ago

This is an obtuse comment because it doesn't mean anything. Yes we all know that every country has for-profit elements. We also all know that every country has social elements in their system. And non-profit elements.

t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Correct. My comment is in reply to an assertion that is uninformative for exactly this reason.

skeledrew 5mo ago

> Every country has for-profit elements in their healthcare system You might want to check that. In Cuba's case, not really unless you focus on their export of medical services. But for the greater case it's totally free. And qualitatively better than what the US provides.