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Healthcare in the Nordics is free. Just saying.
There is no point in making broad generalizations, it is a complex issue were you have a multi-decade and multi-billion dollar business tightly coupled with the healthcare of millions of people.
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I’ve got several friends who specifically moved to the US from Canada because the pay was so much better. No doubt it varies by circumstance, but docs ive known in the US pay off their $500k in student debt pretty quickly if they specialize. And sure insurance CEOs are paid more, but there are also a several magnitude more doctors than insurance CEOs. You could pay all the CEOs $1 and the cost of healthcare isn’t goi…
This simply isn't true. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/payer-issues/what-5-he... And its not just the CEOs - its all the parasites in the c-suite. And these people contribute less than nothing to the health of patients, quite the opposite.
Seems likely enough that adding another 100 CEOs wouldn't make the total much more.
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Regulations and subsidies do not seem to make other countries' systems inefficient. They make it so that folks are safe and that they can actually get health care. I really want regulation in health care. I do not want medication to be a free-for-all like supplements are in the US. I'm not a doctor, after all, and they are slow to take supplements off the market even if they are harming or killing folks (take a look…
>>Regulations and subsidies do not seem to make other countries' systems inefficient. Other countries' healthcare systems are growing increasingly more inefficient as well, with the proportion of GDP expended on healthcare rapidly rising, with many seeing it double over the last 40 years. [1] And they face critical shortages, like this case of a woman in Canada who had to wait two years to get a test that diagnosed h…
There are two (mostly) unrelated issues: the efficiency of the healthcare system and increasing availability of effective but expensive treatments.
I believe we have already reached the point where even 100% of GDP is insufficient for healthcare. There is always something more you can do, something better you can try. No matter how much money you choose to spend, somebody must eventually make the decision to withhold better care because the economy is not big enough.
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I guess it depends on your comparison - that article didn't include Australia, NZ or Canada. Also if you factor in earnings and expenses over a lifetime (including cost of studying and the fact that many of the countries mentioned have free healthcare and education and far lower insurance requirements) it evens out substantially. More importantly, even the highest physician salaries are orders of magnitude less than…
I’ve got several friends who specifically moved to the US from Canada because the pay was so much better. No doubt it varies by circumstance, but docs ive known in the US pay off their $500k in student debt pretty quickly if they specialize. And sure insurance CEOs are paid more, but there are also a several magnitude more doctors than insurance CEOs. You could pay all the CEOs $1 and the cost of healthcare isn’t goi…
In countries with a more functioning healthcare system, disruption of the status quo (especially by VC-funded private companies seeking a large payday) is neither necessary or desirable, slow iterative improvements are the name of the game.
Furthermore, the US spends far more per capita than every other country on healthcare, and receives worse healthcare outcomes as a result [1], [2]. If you think that the solution is throwing more VC money at the problem, well, I have a bridge to sell you.
Sadly for Americans, the obvious solution that most (~70%) Americans apparently want (Medicare for all) seems very unlikely to happen anytime soon.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/learning/whats-going-on-i...
Healthcare in the Nordics is free. Just saying.
Healthcare in the Netherlands or Switzerland is not free and neither of them have the social disruption and problems you find in the US. There is no point in making broad generalizations, it is a complex issue were you have a multi-decade and multi-billion dollar business tightly coupled with the healthcare of millions of people.
In NL, you pay ~€110/month annually, with a max out-of-pocket cost of €385 per year. So, maximum €1600 cost annually.
People with a low income, students, etc, get approximately the same amount of money as a cash benefit to cover these costs.
I'm not saying this is good, it isn't, healthcare costs should be covered by general taxation like in the UK. But it's not very expensive.
(It also seems pretty stupid in the Netherlands, because you have to pay an insurer for your health insurance, but they all charge pretty much the same, since it's highly regulated, and then out of pocket costs are capped. Seems much simpler to eliminate the insurance companies and let the state administer costs and pocket the profit that the insurance companies are extracting)
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>>Regulations and subsidies do not seem to make other countries' systems inefficient. Other countries' healthcare systems are growing increasingly more inefficient as well, with the proportion of GDP expended on healthcare rapidly rising, with many seeing it double over the last 40 years. [1] And they face critical shortages, like this case of a woman in Canada who had to wait two years to get a test that diagnosed h…
> Other countries healthcare systems are growing increasingly more inefficient as well, with the proportion of GDP expended on healthcare rapidly rising, with many seeing it double over the last 40 years. There are two (mostly) unrelated issues: the efficiency of the healthcare system and increasing availability of effective but expensive treatments. I believe we have already reached the point where even 100% of GDP…
In any case, the price inflation seen in highly regulated vs lightly unregulated markets is, to me, telling:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century-3...
Healthcare in the Nordics is free. Just saying.
Healthcare in the Netherlands or Switzerland is not free and neither of them have the social disruption and problems you find in the US. There is no point in making broad generalizations, it is a complex issue were you have a multi-decade and multi-billion dollar business tightly coupled with the healthcare of millions of people.
The greatest healthcare improvements in the US could be brought about by: - Dismantling the insurance/big hospital complex that milks the US population for the enrichment of c-suite executives. - Removing the capacity for lobbying by insurance companies, large hospital groups, device and pharma companies (so they're less able to price gouge consumers). - Price transparency on all links of the chain of healthcare deli…
The greatest healthcare improvements in the US could be brought about by: - Dismantling the insurance/big hospital complex that milks the US population for the enrichment of c-suite executives. - Removing the capacity for lobbying by insurance companies, large hospital groups, device and pharma companies (so they're less able to price gouge consumers). - Price transparency on all links of the chain of healthcare deli…
The simplest changes we could make would be to ban the addition of sugar to certain mainstream food categories (drinks, bread, sauces), and also to require nutritional information to be listed as per 100g, not per serving size. Follow that by banning burning of coal and oil, we also remove a significant amount of noise and air pollution. Next we can ban any hormone-disrupting chemicals (including as plastic additives…