Re:My adventures in medical tourism
by davidw on Monday December 14, 2015 @01:47PM
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The US health care system sucks. I'm generally happy to be back in the US, but not about this particular aspect of it.
It's more bureaucratic than Italy, costs more, isn't appreciably better, and wastes people's time more.
What's more, even though Italy has a single payer system, there is also private care available that is quick, cheap and efficient - which it has to be, since the competition is "free" (tax funded).
The US has neither a free market, nor a good government provisioned system, but some mess that's neither fish nor fowl.
It's more bureaucratic than Italy, costs more, isn't appreciably better, and wastes people's time more.
What's more, even though Italy has a single payer system, there is also private care available that is quick, cheap and efficient - which it has to be, since the competition is "free" (tax funded).
The US has neither a free market, nor a good government provisioned system, but some mess that's neither fish nor fowl.