Re:Quality of care declines after private equity takes over ...
by albert180 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @07:16AM
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It's still one of the most deregulated, most bloated and inefficient systems in the whole world, delivering the worst health outcomes across the G7-States.
Everywhere else in the world tight-controlled and regulated Healthcaresystems deliver far better quality. It's one of the cases where you need a regulated market, not a free one
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Re:Quality of care declines after private equity takes over ...
by aeternum on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:32PM
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Does it actually provide worse health outcomes?
American lifestyles especially in certain states are generally not conducive to good outcomes but the US healthcare system itself is still generally world-renowned for cutting edge procedures.
Analyzing from a cost POV it's quite bad, but in many ways healthcare is the ultimate marginal good so people are willing to spend what they have.
Re:Quality of care declines after private equity takes over ...
by albert180 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:18PM
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On a population level it does.
Higher children mortality than most developing countries and worst life expectancy in G7 can't only be contributed to bad lifestyle.
It's also a huge part of not being able to access care, and that's not the cutting edge care, it's cheap basic care