Re:Marc Andreessen interview
by chrisco255 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:06PM
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In the U.S. if you are poor, you are eligible for free healthcare via Medicaid: https://www.medicaid.gov/
I'm not sure where this tangent is going, but in U.S. many of us feel like total federal government control of healthcare would lead to bad outcomes in the long run, whether that's from deteriorating investment in new technology or through lack of local accountability or through rationing and extended wait times.
Americans are nothing if not impatient. The wait times I hear of for even routine surgeries like tonsil removal in Israel and UK blow my mind, as an American. I would not expect to wait more than a week or two for something like that in the U.S. but have heard it can take a year or more to get an appointment in those countries.
I'm not sure where this tangent is going, but in U.S. many of us feel like total federal government control of healthcare would lead to bad outcomes in the long run, whether that's from deteriorating investment in new technology or through lack of local accountability or through rationing and extended wait times.
Americans are nothing if not impatient. The wait times I hear of for even routine surgeries like tonsil removal in Israel and UK blow my mind, as an American. I would not expect to wait more than a week or two for something like that in the U.S. but have heard it can take a year or more to get an appointment in those countries.