Re:Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care br...
by beagle3 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:12PM
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Europeans also have private care, if they so desire and can afford it.
I've lived in the US and in more than one country with universal healthcare, and know quite a few people in similar situations. Some prefer living in the US, but I'm not familiar with a single person who, given a choice, would take the US model over the European model. Do you?
I wonder if "better cancer outcome in the US" is actually a result of selection bias, because the really poor people don't even get diagnosed, e.g. the money quote from [0]:
"""Danielle Scott, an employee at the store where Savastano bought the winning lottery ticket, told WABC that Savastano used the money for a visit to the doctor because he was uninsured. It was then he learned he had cancer, she said. """
I've lived in the US and in more than one country with universal healthcare, and know quite a few people in similar situations. Some prefer living in the US, but I'm not familiar with a single person who, given a choice, would take the US model over the European model. Do you?
I wonder if "better cancer outcome in the US" is actually a result of selection bias, because the really poor people don't even get diagnosed, e.g. the money quote from [0]:
"""Danielle Scott, an employee at the store where Savastano bought the winning lottery ticket, told WABC that Savastano used the money for a visit to the doctor because he was uninsured. It was then he learned he had cancer, she said. """
[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/02/lotter...