OBAMA approval PLUMMETS to a dreadful 40%

[Viper1]

thx1139 said:

Viper1 said:
I'm not actually talking about elite private doctors that are on call for the rich but the average hospital facility or even family doctor is over all the highest quality in the world. The access to most everyone with insurance to see medical field specialists for just about every malady imaginable is invaluable compared to many countries that roll up a doctor into multiple fields. The downside is that greatly increases the costs.

More to the point, the average American citizen has access to the best healthcare in the world in terms of quality. But it comes at a nasty cost which is bloated far beyond what it needs to be thanks to the removal of free market economics.

Rich americans, because Insurance companies dont work that way.  I am picking a 100% common health care need. Friends of ours lived in Brussels for a number of years. There third child was born in Brussels.  The experience was vastly different than what a US patient goes through.  I have had 3 children and all 3 were cessarian births.  We did not stay in the hospital more than 4 days from the time we checked in until the time we checked out. It is very common in the US for a mother and child to be out of the hospital within 2 days of giving birth.  Our friends experience in Brussels was vastly different. With a normal birth the mother and child stayed in the hospital for a week. Then for another couple weeks they had a nurse come by everyday to assist.  In the US that is healthcare that the rich get. Insurance companies dont work that way. They want you out as soon as possible no matter what.

That's a fascinating anecdote and I'd love to see that kind of birthing care here but unfortunately we could swap anecdotes all day and get nowhere.

What I'm referencing is a commonly accepted and verfied understanding that the average quaity of care in the US is of a higher standard than anywhere else in the world.  Might there be cases were one nation takes a segment of healthcare very seriously and outdoes the US?  Certainly, but on the whole average is where these considerations come from.

But it's the costs above all that are the main issue.  The quality differnces are minor enough that it's hardly worth debating about.   It's the costs and the measures in place that keep them artificially high that are of concern.