Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018)
by api on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:38PM
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The US system is worse than "capitalism will solve it." It combines everything that is bad about socialized medicine (regulatory red tape, bureaucratic overhead, slowed advancement, state-enforced moribund monopolies) with everything that is bad about privatized medicine (predatory pricing behavior, regressive cost burden, non-universal coverage).
It's a remarkably bad system, a kind of "pessimum" solution that benefits only insurance companies as far as I can tell. I've also heard that it's run as a kind of jobs program that's designed to employ massive numbers of middle-tier management, clerical, and bureaucratic types.
The US has a lot of these worst possible outcome systems. We seem to like to take all the worst ideas from the left and combine them with all the worst ideas from the right. Another example of the worst ideas of both sides is zoning and urban planning in California.
It's a remarkably bad system, a kind of "pessimum" solution that benefits only insurance companies as far as I can tell. I've also heard that it's run as a kind of jobs program that's designed to employ massive numbers of middle-tier management, clerical, and bureaucratic types.
The US has a lot of these worst possible outcome systems. We seem to like to take all the worst ideas from the left and combine them with all the worst ideas from the right. Another example of the worst ideas of both sides is zoning and urban planning in California.