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In particular life expectancy is very low by developed world standards and deaths from preventable causes are very high.
I don’t doubt that the US has world leading hospitals but the population level outcomes delivered are poor by developed world standards.
The US is a net exporter of healthcare services but mostly to developing countries and the numbers involved are tiny (https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/executive_briefings/c...)
The idea that people who want any sort of complex procedure travel to the US is pure fantasy.
As for the COVID-19 vaccines. The first approved vaccine was the “Pfizer” vaccine developed by BioNTech in Germany (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer–BioNTech_COVID-19_vac...).
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In particular life expectancy is very low by developed world standards and deaths from preventable causes are very high.
I don’t doubt that the US has world leading hospitals but the population level outcomes delivered are poor by developed world standards.
The US is a net exporter of healthcare services but mostly to developing countries and the numbers involved are tiny (https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/executive_briefings/c...)
The idea that people who want any sort of complex procedure travel to the US is pure fantasy.
As for the COVID-19 vaccines. The first approved vaccine was the “Pfizer” vaccine developed by BioNTech in Germany (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer–BioNTech_COVID-19_vac...).