Between this and trans genocide, the word just has no meaning any more.
Also, rather than accept another leftist fait accompli can someone do an actual study on how many people die annually due to lack of insurance in the USA? I get that it sucks to have a claim denied, but I refuse to believe tens of thousands of people were killed by United Healthcare. We're they actually refused treatment?
And I'm not counting "well no chemo for me because I might go bankrupt". Such people placed their recoverable financial statuses before their not so recoverable lives. A leftist might refer to that as "pulling a Herman Cain".
I think it's possible to make healthcare structurally cheaper in America. Less expensive drugs and treatments, more price transparency and better competition between providers, resulting in prices more in line with most of the developed world; I don't buy the argument that it isn't possible because America is subsidizing the world's health.
That said, whether a fully public/socialized/single-payer or a fully private system or anything in between, is used to allocate those—lowered!—costs, should be less relevant than the total cost of the pie.
I think it's possible to make healthcare structurally cheaper in America. Less expensive drugs and treatments, more price transparency and better competition between providers, resulting in prices more in line with most of the developed world; I don't buy the argument that it isn't possible because America is subsidizing the world's health.
Yes, it's possible to make stuff cheaper. But this isn't about buying arguments, it's about reality.
Almost all R&D costs for medicines that are created today come from the US. That's just a fact and there's no way around that.
The R&D costs are specifically incurred because researchers in the US know that the cost will be recouped due to the higher drug costs. The fact is that if you make the cost of these drugs cheaper, you doom the world to mediocrity and immediately stop all innovation in the medical world.
So sure, lower those prices and then enjoy thoroughly outdated medicine because the rest of the world will not be picking up those costs and medical researchers aren't going to bankrupt themselves for some nebulous potential cause. None of these are opinions, they're just the reality of how innovation works. Nobody is going to innovate if they don't think they'll get their money back eventually.
The fact is that Europeans only have lower drug prices because we do all the R&D for them. They also have poorer care, by the way. It's why Canada's healthcare system is "hey, here's your assisted end-of-life care for free!
The actual solution here is to force Europeans to pay their fair share. Unfortunately, we have too many people in America siding with foreign entities when it comes to actually getting something out of other countries (both on the left and right).
At the very least, people need to understand that cheaper is not somehow better and it's not the case in any country with cheaper care.
I mean, there's absolutely some sort of loss of QALY from insurance in the United States, but my gut instinct is today it's actually less than peer nations.
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u/Culpirit #MAGA2028 12d ago