Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29

Re:Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29 by astrange on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:14AM (#37654730)

Medicare isn't the same type of system as the NHS. My understanding is the NHS is actually fairly rare among healthcare systems, but aside from that it has the bad luck to be run by UK politicians.

US's lifespan is not caused by lack of access to healthcare though, that is fentanyl.

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Re:Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29 by defrost on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:40AM (#37655285)

> Medicare isn't the same type of system as the NHS.

True, however Australia has a tiered health care system with a very low gap to ensure that practically the entire population has access to healthcare that they can afford in addition to national bulk pharmacy deals to cap generics for the bulk of ailments that require prescription.

For all it's warts the Australian system delivers a kind of healthcare that the US system does not .. widely available affordable treatment for the bulk of medical issues.

US (general mean both sexes) life expectancy sharply dropped as COVID spread, the most that fentanyl can be accused of is the flattening of the general slow increase between 2012 and 2018 .. even that ended and was on the increase until the USofA foot gunned its handling of COVID.

[ Historic USofA ] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/EX/BothSe...

[ Historic Australia ] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/EX/BothSe...

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Re:Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29 by DanBC on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:46AM (#37655850)

> US's lifespan is not caused by lack of access to healthcare though, that is fentanyl.

How do people with substance use disorders stop using substances? They use healthcare, unless they're in the US where they'll using some quasi-religious abstinence-only residential programme.

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