[anthropocene_x]

Great returns on lobbying money spent by the insurance and healthcare corporations.

Also, pony up for healthcare for illegals, people. Can't be racist now.

Oh, and Raytheon....I mean Ukraine needs another 100 billion.

The US taxpayer - what a cash cow!

[stanne]

Well yeah. Universal health care doesn’t actually provide good health care

[Terry L Smith]

of course we do! medical malpractice suits defense costsmoney!

[eyeamok]

If only we had some sort of laws that made price fixing. colluding to fix prices , monopolizing,... We could call them Anti Trust Laws, kind of like the old fable called Sherman Clayton Anti trust law or the fictitious Robinson Patman anti trust law from old folk stories, hell we could put a lot of criminals away and stop the racketeering in the medical profession...

[unixfox]

But….ObamaCare.

[lowbridge]

They spend less because they get less.

Hospital waiting list deaths double in five years

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/31/nhs-patients-dying-waiting-treatment-do/

Man died after excessive wait for cancer treatment

https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/making-complaint/what-we-can-and-cant-help/how-we-have-helped-others/man-died-after-excessive-wait-cancer-treatment

UK: Numbers show huge spike in patient deaths while on NHS waitlist

https://www.wionews.com/world/uk-numbers-show-huge-spike-in-patient-deaths-while-on-nhs-waitlist-630889

[dfwgator]

They are intentionally trying to break the system to bring about Single-Payer. That’s what ObamaCare was all about.

[Gay State Conservative]

In Britain people wait 6 months for an MRI. And they wait 9 months to see a cancer specialist.

[Jim Noble]

The system is collapsing.

Nationalization is inevitable. Time to discuss how it should be done.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Aren’t we paying Big Pharm for the rest of the world’s meds?

[icclearly]

We bought the best health care in the world. Good for us.

Don't want to pay the ticket. Then don't get the care.

Or, better yet. Move to Canada or the UK. They speak our language, and you pay nothing. You also get practically nothing.

I'm happy to pay. Our medical system has kept me and my family alive.

[Captain Walker]

And despite this, we probably had more Covid deaths than those same six countries...

[bgill]

We were still paying off the bat lab.

[nuconvert]

2 things:
The population of the U.S. is slightly higher than the population of all those countries combined and we get better & faster care than those countries give.

[Organic Panic]

Ain’t welfare grand?

[brianl703]

Going to the ER is a pastime for some folks on Medicaid. I know one who went to the ER at least 60 times in one year, trying to score Dilaudid. I figure that guy must have cost the US taxpayer several million dollars in health costs by now—and none of that includes any costs for the psych eval he really needs.

[Wuli]

We spend too much on treatment and too little on prevention, including too little on preventing known issues from getting worse.