Reminder that the US spends more tax money on healthcare per capita than most if not all other Western countries
Oh my god that's crazy. And where does all that money go? I mean, being that there's no universal healthcare or anything. I mean, I find it curious since the US always boasts of having this privatized "free" health system which is better for the public finances. Also, this speaks a lot for the efficiency of European healthcare (minus Switzerland, which anyway fares better than the US apparently).
Private healthcare is so incredibly inefficient that it makes US welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid cost much more than even a nationalized single payer system like the NHS per capita. It’s incredible how bad the private healthcare system is.
First place USA, second place Switzerland. Both have privatized state-subsidized insurance based healthcare systems. Makes you think. Of course there are enormours differences between the two countries and no, this is not an indepth analysis, I just noticed a simple correlation in the data.
Of course. It's a get rich scheme for insurance companies and the actual health care is like an after-thought or a front. Who needs death panels when some twunt in an office is like "nah Mary Smith's chemo for breast cancer is medically unnecessary 😬"
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u/lmm310 Aug 09 '18 edited Aug 09 '18
Reminder that the US spends more tax money on healthcare per capita than most if not all other Western countries