News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by deugtniet on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:18PM (#22386855)
All you need to do is look at the health care costs per citizen of other developed countries to understand that the US is paying way too much in their current healthcare system. I'm aware that the US's healthcare system is unique in many ways, but so are all the other countries on that list and they made it work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by tptacek on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:20PM (#22388003)
The problem is that when you break those costs down into buckets and then compare the buckets with other countries, we're overspending in all of them, by very large amounts. Pharma and admin is nibbling at the edges of the problem. We pay way more for inpatient and outpatient procedures than other countries do. We prescribe more procedures than other countries (possibly as a consequence of how well we've gotten at delivering procedures on an outpatient basis; the UK, for instance, apparently fixes fewer hernias, but that's probably a result of the fact that they do a lot more of then on an inpatient basis). Our doctors also just make substantially more money.