It's just super bad right now because reasons, and has nothing to do with healthcare practioners being pressured especially hard to take certain experimental injections and then - also completely unrelatedly - taking a lot of sick leave...if they don't keel over.
Government meddling made healthcare a terrible place to work.
Forgive me but you don't have it that good. I'm not sure why healthcare is so expensive in the USA and other countries. I assume it must be insurance, corporate and government meddling similar to what's made university tuition insane in those places.
In my country (Peru), healthcare isn't as expensive. You can get the best private health insurance for 400 PEN monthly (That's what I pay, less than 105 USD) and get access to the best clinics in the country. Wait times are insignificant.
Countries have choices. Provide plentiful basic care or spend billions on the tail ends of probability diseases that only 8 people have. Affordable insurance premiums, or billions to line the pockets of pharmaceutical companies. The US (lawmakers) have made those choices. The rest is just details.
(There is also a wage multiplier factor. Simply converting the prices between currency doesn't account for that. You will find that many things cost multiples in the US what they do in Peru. They're not all from broken markets; it's just a high wage country so local inputs are expensive.)
What a minute. I thought Scandinavian and indeed EU public health care was held high as examples where dirtbag Americans should aspire to?
It's just super bad right now because reasons, and has nothing to do with healthcare practioners being pressured especially hard to take certain experimental injections and then - also completely unrelatedly - taking a lot of sick leave...if they don't keel over.
Government meddling made healthcare a terrible place to work.
Can you link a source please?
I'm getting zero hits when trying to search some variations of the headline.
It will please you to know that in freedom loving countries, wait times are usually a half hour to an hour.
And we bitch about it endlessly
Very true. We don't realize just how good we have it.
Forgive me but you don't have it that good. I'm not sure why healthcare is so expensive in the USA and other countries. I assume it must be insurance, corporate and government meddling similar to what's made university tuition insane in those places.
In my country (Peru), healthcare isn't as expensive. You can get the best private health insurance for 400 PEN monthly (That's what I pay, less than 105 USD) and get access to the best clinics in the country. Wait times are insignificant.
Yeah but there are also snakes that will ambush you from the jungle so it seems like a wash.
I dunno, have you seen what ambushes people from streets named after MLK Jr.? I might prefer the actual jungle to the concrete one.
Countries have choices. Provide plentiful basic care or spend billions on the tail ends of probability diseases that only 8 people have. Affordable insurance premiums, or billions to line the pockets of pharmaceutical companies. The US (lawmakers) have made those choices. The rest is just details.
(There is also a wage multiplier factor. Simply converting the prices between currency doesn't account for that. You will find that many things cost multiples in the US what they do in Peru. They're not all from broken markets; it's just a high wage country so local inputs are expensive.)
That's a fair point.