Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for August 23, 2023

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    Updesh Dosanjh Premium Member over 1 year ago

    US Lifespan: 77.28 years and fallingUS healthcare spend: ~ $13,000/person

    UK Lifespan: 80.9 yearsUK healthcare spend: $5,300/person

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    markyakes Premium Member over 1 year ago

    There are 195 countries in the world. 152 of them have some sort of universal healthcare.

    The reason so many countries do this is because they think it wrong to deny essential – sometimes life saving – healthcare to those who simply cannot afford it.

    How does the USA – a country surely full of enough intelligent and caring people – continue to deny this basic right?

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    akachman Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Another problem: all the unpaid hours of work primary doctors do everyday. The new doctors are avoiding primary care: it’s too much work with low pay and poor quality of life.

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    Ishka Bibel  over 1 year ago

    I am currently navigating the health insurance disaster that is America.America has the best health care system in the world until you need it.

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 1 year ago

    We have the best healthcare money money money money money can buy.

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    Cozmik Cowboy  over 1 year ago

    Among the almost 200 recognized countries in the world, the U.S. (the wealthiest of them) is first in per-capita expenditure on health care.

    We are 38th in quality of health care.

    Almost 28,000,000 Americans have no health coverage what-so-ever; nearly 80% of rural America is “medically under-served”.

    That, my friends, is the face of capitalism.

    Just as Democratic Socialism works better than the profit motive for things like fire departments, roads, schools, (and on and on), it is the only sane approach to health care. It works in all the civilized countries; it would work here. This is not even taking into account that the for=profit health insurance companies average a 47% “overhead” (that means that of every dollar you pay them, 53¢ goes to health care; the rest to things like advertising and obscene executive compensation). By contrast, the “bloated inefficient government bureaucracy” of Medicare has overhead of a whopping 2%.

    And the small tax required would save the average American family about $4000 per year over the premiums, co-pays, deductibles, etc., they are buried under now.

    Simple law: Medicare covers _everything; to make the transition easier, the eligible age for Medicare drops 10 years each year for the next 6 (well, 5 years the last).

    Problems solved.

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    braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Republican Saint, Uncle Miltie, repeatedly stated that the ONLY responsibility for any business was to make as much money as possible.

    All Republicans believe this to be true, especially for the health care industry. Delivering actual health care is something to be rationed in order to achieve the prime objective.

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