It is used in public healthcare, for example, with biologic drugs. According to my rudimentary calculations, Spain has an 80-100B euro public healthcare budget. If every person who would benefit from a biological drug treatment received it, that would add close to 40% to that budget. And in the US, these drugs are much more expensive.
What drug treatment are you referring to, in particular? In many countries, including those with both socialized and private healthcare, insurance companies routinely pay for treatments costing much more than the statistical value of life. Also, these incredibly expensive single-dose cures usually are that expensive because they don't benefit from any economies of scale and/or haven't recouped their investment yet. I…
Adalimumab and others. Yes, they do pay more, but not for everyone. Not for seniors in public healthcare.
Where did you get the idea that the US is like that?
I lived there
I've lived in the US all my life, and I've never heard anything remotely like someone needing to bribe the police to help in a situation like that. In fact, I have a friend who is a retired police officer and who commanded the SWAT team in a major US city. His team was dispatched more often than not to help people at the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
I've lived in the US all my life, and I've never heard anything remotely like someone needing to bribe the police to help in a situation like that. In fact, I have a friend who is a retired police officer and who commanded the SWAT team in a major US city. His team was dispatched more often than not to help people at the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
I lived in Houston, Texas, River Oaks, and it was very common there. This is the quarter of the biggest evil: Enron, Bush, Cheney, Ted Cruz, ...