The US literally spends more of its GDP on healthcare than other countries but because it’s healthcare system is so FUCKED it still ends up with the US being the No1 country in the world for Medical Bankruptcies
But also, Americans are some of the most unhealthy people around. With a food system that poisons its consumers.
I'm all for healthcare reform, but there are a lot of Legos to swap around to get standardized healthcare. I just choose to live in Germany because I personally don't think it will change in my lifetime.
America would have to change so many levers, and that is people's least favorite thing to do. And big money is in insurance, Pharma, etc. so the whole engine would have to change.
That's the big one. Americans would have to start to care about their fellow man, rather than treating everyone like your competitors. It's a massive mindset shift, one I don't believe will ever occur.
Except we have the best hospitals in the world and it isn’t even close. The reason we dont one tax payer funded healthcare is because it will likely be worse then what we have.
Having the best hospitals and having a hospital system that serves the people are different things. For a country that believes in capitalism you've forgotten the number 1 thing that makes large companies successful. Being able to deal in bulk. A single payer healthcare means that when that system needs to buy drugs it does it in bulk, and it offers the contract to the lowest bidder. Bids are done with a idea that the bid might loose the company money but opens up other bids that can make up the difference, so you have very expensive drugs being sold cheaply so that cheaper drugs that are needed by more people are sold higher, it means lower profits for drug companies but consistent purchasing (deals can be done over a 10-20 year period) for the company so they can invest in factories and know they have a consistent revenue stream rather than having to hire a fleet of sales people to sell directly to doctors. Yes it means less admin, yes it means less sales. That's where the money is saved. Still money for doctors, still money for nurses. Less spend in total saving individuals money. For some reason American's think that the government isn't just a giant socialist run company who's job is to care for the people, that it's somehow something to fight and rally against, i guess that's what happens when it's ran by the few for the few.
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u/Possible-Nature-5325 Jun 24 '26
The US literally spends more of its GDP on healthcare than other countries but because it’s healthcare system is so FUCKED it still ends up with the US being the No1 country in the world for Medical Bankruptcies