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Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B by fakedang on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:01PM (#26782781)
Of course, the European model is extremely sustainable if you can ignore the not insignificant amount of cost cutting and lack of coverage of certain drugs for orphan diseases. You can literally just talk to any doctor or nurse in the NHS system and ask them about how quality of care has declined over the past decade, while their professionals' workload has only increased unsustainably. And we're talking about one of the best run healthcare systems in Europe here.

It's of course nothing like the American system which is a bastardization of Healthcare, but it's no utopia either. Costs of delivering healthcare have increased in Europe mostly due to wasteful spending.

I don't know if you bothered to read his points after the first line, but he clearly outlined the Asian model of healthcare, and clearly criticizes the American model.

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Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B by FireBeyond on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:54PM (#26785037)
> lack of coverage of certain drugs for orphan diseases

This is literally the case in the US too. It's not "right" in Europe, when it happens, nor is it in the US.

US pharma companies have, repeatedly, discontinued cheaper, and in some cases, the only effective, medications when they've deemed them not profitable enough.

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