News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes. Parent comment

Re:US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes by chmod775 on Monday February 06, 2023 @03:56AM (#34675002)
> That's the real issue - they will never want to take a hit to living standards.

So what are they gonna do? Refuse to treat people and starve themselves to death? They'll be replaced by people willing to earn less and who probably care about the work they do rather than just caring about earning a fat paycheck - those exist, as other countries prove. Seems like a win to me.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes by nivenkos on Monday February 06, 2023 @04:00AM (#34675037)
Yeah, go on strike, or refuse to work with the public health system, etc.

Britain had all of these issues and it cost a lot of money.

There's also other issues - like the NHS doesn't cover circumcision unless there is medical need (this is not so controversial in the UK, but would be in the USA), and it does cover gender transition surgery, etc. (despite covering no other cosmetic surgery, and nowadays not covering dentistry or opticians) - all of these issues are controversial and difficult.

[ Parent | on HN ]