Opaque drug pricing in the U.S.

Re:Opaque drug pricing in the U.S. by Chathamization on Sunday March 12, 2017 @05:10PM (#13853144)

In plenty of other countries doctors are paid substantially less and the quality of healthcare is better. I don't think it's impossible for the U.S. to do what everyone else is already doing.

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Re:Opaque drug pricing in the U.S. by ethbro on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:43AM (#13857729)

The statistics in similar free market countries (labor, not health care) are curious. Interested in any links you have, but this NYT blog post [1] seems to show that, GDP-per-capita normalized (which seems reasonable; second chart), there isn't that large of a divergence between what I would assume would be comparable nations.

Nurses make 0.9-1.4x, GPs 1.7-4.1x, and specialists 1.7-7.6x GDPpc.

Certainly a range, but nothing jumps out at me as "the US is an order of magnitude outlier."

I'd be fascinated to make a further breakdown of these numbers in terms of style of country's health care system, to see what correlations drop out though...

[1] https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/how-much-do-do...

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Re:Opaque drug pricing in the U.S. by throwaway2048 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @05:26PM (#13853220)

However, I doubt the quality of care is better BECAUSE they are paid less.

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