Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ...
by ed_elliott_asc on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:42AM
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It works pretty well here in the uk in each major town you get specialist hospitals with a number of general ones that don’t have the specific equipment specialists need.
It does mean you sometimes have to travel further but it works out better for everyone, even for you as the specialist care is within one “centre of excellence” (whether it is excellent is a different point but they could potentially be)
And of course competition leads to unnecessary duplication, inefficiency is a well-known criticism of capitalism. But this inefficiency is like the inefficiency that comes from using Python instead of C; it is slower and uses more resources, but it actually gets things done, unlike health care where the inefficiency seems to come primarily from government regulation and lack of transparency.