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Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by vkou on Monday September 09, 2019 @05:46PM (#20922812)
Yes, but how does the European model benefit the real stakeholders - medical schools, doctors, hospitals, pharma, and insurers?

Those groups are going to hold any progress on this matter hostage. (Imagine the job losses! Imagine the loss in innovation! Imagine not being able to provide the best treatment money can buy! Imagine not being able to charge a million dollars for a medical education! Or being able to pay off my million dollar debt, accrued to finance my medical education!)

Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by mschuster91 on Monday September 09, 2019 @05:54PM (#20922901)
Medical schools are publicly funded universities, same for many hospitals. Doctors have decent funding by insurers (we have both single payer systems as well as competing ngo/private insurance companies, depending on country). Pharma gets to negotiate pricing with a central body and that's it. Of course big pharma cries all the time but ah well. Better than the US where people die because they can't afford insulin!