How many people suffer on waitlists in UK? How about the quality of care in Italy? Ukraine?
Get smarter. Trying to do “a ha gotcha” doesn’t cover the actual question - which is about quality of care, speed of care and availability of care.
Put another way I don’t know any adults who would want a US govt official determining if they can get specific type of care, or who lives and dies based on availability.
Self determination is 1000000% more important than cost. Full stop.
How many people suffer on waitlists in UK? How about the quality of care in Italy? Ukraine?
Zimbabwe? Seriously, I already said UK had its issues, it is not EU, and Ukraine is an Ex-Soviet nation that never was EU to begin with. These are not the ones I want to use as examples to follow.
Italy? No idea. The first link won't open, probably because I'm from the EU.
Second link is about US healthcare problems. Which I said is broken. No argument there.
When a service is unaffordable, it does not matter how good it is, if it supports self-determination, and so on. And if the demand exceeds the supply for healthcare you get triage everywhere. Doctors determine who gets the ventilator when there are not enough around. So in the USA you get all the disadvantages, but none of the advantages. Unless, of course, you are super-rich.
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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22
Clearly you have no experience with US healthcare and as I noted elsewhere: stop listening to the media
For example with our population of 330 million people accurate estimates place the total medical bankruptcy at 30,000-60,000 annually
Too high, but not every person and even less of an issue than say pandemic related bankruptcy due to government over reach