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Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product by merpnderp on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:57AM (#29874824)
I’m interested in this worst performing stat. By what measure? Because I’ve always read that when controlling for the relative poor health of the us population regarding diseases related to poor eating and exercise habits, the US was a top performer for heart and cancer treatments.
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Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product by telxosser on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:16AM (#29877058)
I am pushing 50 years of age and one constant in my life is people shitting on the US healthcare system.

I have family in Canada with family members the same age on both sides.

Canada is great if you are a healthy broke college student.

No one in their right mind would ever pick Canadian health care over the US though if you are 60+.

There is no way you would rather have cancer in a country with free health care.

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Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product by standardUser on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:44AM (#29877510)
"There is no way you would rather have cancer in a country with free health care."

Unless you can't afford for-profit healthcare. Then any sane person would 100% prefer one of the fifty or so developed nations with free healthcare.

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Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product by samoa42 on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:18PM (#29879043)
also safe to say that a vast majority of ppl on the planet can't afford for-profit cancer treatment
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Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product by mbg721 on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:19AM (#29877109)
At the very least, by billing transparency and paperwork load. Even Americans who are happy with their healthcare hate that.
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Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product by mdoms on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:28PM (#29879197)
So if you imagine that USA was healthy then health outcomes look great?
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