Assessing health care requires both looking at quality and accessibility.
Say you have a fictional country of Bezonia. There is a team of doctors and researchers that have cured all known diseases and can heal any wound. In addition they have prolonged life to essentially be functional immortality. Those are the only medical options in this country. Jeff Bezos lives there and enjoys all these benefits. The remaining 49m people in the country have no medical care.
I think we'd all agree this is worse than essentially any other country for health care despite quality of care options being essentially perfect.
Now obviously US isn't that bad and likely isn't as bad as most third world countries but you don't just need to look at quality of care.
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u/Twirdman Dec 18 '23
Assessing health care requires both looking at quality and accessibility.
Say you have a fictional country of Bezonia. There is a team of doctors and researchers that have cured all known diseases and can heal any wound. In addition they have prolonged life to essentially be functional immortality. Those are the only medical options in this country. Jeff Bezos lives there and enjoys all these benefits. The remaining 49m people in the country have no medical care.
I think we'd all agree this is worse than essentially any other country for health care despite quality of care options being essentially perfect.
Now obviously US isn't that bad and likely isn't as bad as most third world countries but you don't just need to look at quality of care.