Healthcare

Diogenes

Diogenes

Nemo me impune lacessit
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The U.S. has the highest per capita health expenditure among OECD countries, spending $12,555 per person in 2022, the latest year for which figures have been compiled.

This is more than $4,000 more than the average spent in other high-income countries, which is about half of the U.S. amount.

That's even significantly higher than in Switzerland, the country with the second highest per capita health expenditure.

Many health technologies wouldn’t be developed in the first place unless the U.S. government reimbursed developers for them.

Other nations are accessing those fully-developed therapies at a much lower cost after the U.S. taxpayer foots the bill.

Wealthy countries like Germany, etc, could start sharing the burden of research and development.

Why don't they?
 
Just as the purpose of our defense industry is wealth extraction not defense the purpose of our health system is not our health....if it was it would look nothing like it does.
 
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The U.S. has the highest per capita health expenditure among OECD countries, spending $12,555 per person in 2022, the latest year for which figures have been compiled.
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Odd, you are saying that other countries are able to get universal healthcare AND pay less than half as much as the USA. It almost sounds like we should figure out some way to get universal healthcare.
 
moon said:
You clearly have no experience of a free-at- the- point-of -need health service. Capitalists suck, Socialists heal.
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Hilarious.

The 'envy of the world' is now the laughingstock of the world.

www.spectator.co.uk

The NHS has never been the ‘envy of the world’

The NHS has slipped down the rankings of the Commonwealth Fund 'Mirror Mirror' study. But should it have been that high in the first place?
www.spectator.co.uk www.spectator.co.uk

www.telegraph.co.uk

The NHS was never the envy of the world, but now it’s just a disaster

The health service is failing – and dragging the rest of the country down with it
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk


www.telegraph.co.uk

The NHS is not the ‘envy of the world’, it’s a disaster zone

Prime Minister delivers a talk with all the rainbows and sparkle deserving of a healthcare system in crisis
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

iea.org.uk

The NHS: Envy of the World?

‘Our National Health Service’; ‘Britain’s greatest institution’; ‘The envy of the world…’ Not even close. The Institute of Economic Affairs’ … Continue reading "The NHS: Envy of the World?"
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Haw, haw, ........haw.
 
The Australian NHS functions well- and , no doubt, the Brits will heal theirs after 14 years of Capitalist rule.

Hey- Capitalists;

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Groucho must be saving up for his circumcision.

Haw, haw......................................haw.
 
We call the go-betweens, health care providers. They provide cost and complexity. They supply as little healthcare as they can. They are in the business of denying as much healthcare as they can, providing more profits and salaries to those who run the system. That is why we have such a poorly rated healthcare system. Healthcare spends billions in lobbying to protect their profits and power. In 2020 healthcare lobbying was over 730 million bucks. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9617167/
 
Walt said:
Odd, you are saying that other countries are able to get universal healthcare AND pay less than half as much as the USA. It almost sounds like we should figure out some way to get universal healthcare.
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Obama wanted that but the insurance companies were a big N-O.
 
Healthcare in the U.S. is more expensive than in peer countries primarily because Americans consume so much more care, not because the number of administrators is out of whack.

One way we know this is through private equity.

When PE firms buy hospitals, they drastically cut admin:


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moon said:
The Australian NHS functions well- and , no doubt, the Brits will heal theirs after 14 years of Capitalist rule.

Hey- Capitalists;

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Haw, haw, haw, haw, haw....................................haw, haw, haw............................haw. Haw.....................haw.
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The British NHS? Are you fucking kidding me? The NHS ranks 7th in the World for number of employees at 1.38 million. It is driving the UK into bankruptcy.


labour.org.uk

The NHS will go bankrupt if it doesn’t reform, warns Labour – The Labour Party

The NHS faces bankruptcy unless it is reformed, Wes Streeting will warn today. The Shadow Health Secretary will argue that fundamental reform of the health service is needed if it is to survive another 75 years. He will say that reform will play a bigger part than investment in rebuilding the...
labour.org.uk labour.org.uk

www.economist.com

The disease that most afflicts England’s National Health Service

Stopping raids on capital budgets would be a start
www.economist.com www.economist.com
 
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