US Universal Healthcare: How are we going to pay for it?

[Kasz216]

skip said:

Kasz216 said:

skip said:

^^the low value obtained per dollar is definatly quite shocking, and makes me believe that change will not succeed.

low value?  When it comes to major diseases your more likely to recover in the US then anywhere else in the world.

People have a lower life expectancy in the US but that's largely due to culture... not illness or healthcare. 

The US for example is 20th in the world for heart disease... and the 1st first world country.

Yet a bunch of 1st world countries are ahead of us in deaths in the first world due to heart disease.

 

an amount of money that is enough to cover all of the per person healthcare expenditures (both public and private) in a country such as australia, but yet covers 15% (dont know the number myself just using real mafoo's number to which I was referring) of the population is low value per dollar.

Oh for the government?  Yeah... government run healthcare doesn't work that well.  Partly because it's a special interest struggle.

To be fair though the government is covering most of the old people, the military and the poor.

A lot of that is going into retirement homes, counciling for PTS disorder and other such things.

 

Overall though... the US has pretty decent healthcare... probably because the US, because it uses private medicine overmedicates instead of undermedicates.  Which means stuff like cancer is more likely to be discovered in the early stages.

In the US yearly or even bi-yearly checkups when you feel perfectly healthy is the norm a lot of the time.  Even people on government insurance.

You get painkillers and antibiotics for the littlest things, MRI's and all kinds of X-rays for every little acident etc.