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If your main concern is cost, then why is it that healthcare per capita (including the taxes being used to pay for it) is lower in these countries than in ones
by rtpg 12y ago
If your main concern is cost, then why is it that healthcare per capita (including the taxes being used to pay for it) is lower in these countries than in ones where the people have to foot the bill through privatised mechanisms?
If your main concern is cost, empirically socialised systems cost less and generate better results.
- jasonisalive 12y agoI would love to see some citations for these claims.
- badsock 12y agoThis is just one of many such charts: http://media.economist.com/images/20090627/CBB677.gif http://media.economist.com/images/20090627/CBB677.gif Unfortunately it's impossible to make a proper comparison since essentially all developed nations except for the USA have adopted some sort of socialized medicine or (i.e. Switzerland) an extremely regulated private system. So USA has essentially been alone in its experiment towards private healthcare. Given that the one system which is much more privatized than the rest has had such poor efficency outcomes I would say that the burden of proof is on anyone who would claim that privatizing even more wouldn't just make the problem worse.
- phaemon 12y agoIt's pretty commonly known. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_%28PPP%29_per_capita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...