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Comment by rgmerk

It comes down to a few issues:

a) The USA pays more for drugs than the rest of the world does. b) private health insurance is really inefficient. c) The US doesn’t do public and preventative health very well. d) The US wastes money overtreating rich people and undertreating poor people more than other countries. e) The US does a bunch of expensive and more importantly counterproductive end-of-life care than other countries. f) The US pays its doctors more than other countries because the supply is artificially restricted and governments don’t push back like they do elsewhere.

parent rgmerk 3 years ago

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