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Re:Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree by flukus on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:26PM (#14642365)
Countries with socialized healthcare are facing the same issue, ballooning healthcare costs, just less acutely.
Re:Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree by inopinatus on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:13AM (#14642731)
That is wrong. For example, the UK's cost of healthcare as a percentage of GDP is actually declining.

The US has double the healthcare expenditure by %age of GDP vs comparable nations such as the UK or Australia, and this order-of-magnitude difference is entirely explainable as systematic inefficiencies of the insurance-led market and uncontrolled drug pricing. All that cost - and it doesn't even cover everyone.

Future generations will study the basket case that is today's US non-single-payer insurance system and write it up under chapter titles like "What the hell were they thinking" and "How not to do it".