Trump: ‘Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated’

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Pemalite said:

It honestly feels like the USA has zero idea what to do about health care, your system is slow, inefficient, expensive and doesn't provide results.

You are paying something like 16-17% of GDP on Health and my country pays 9%. Yet we have longer life expectancy.

We have more beds, lower infant mortality rate, lower obesity, more Physicians per capita and higher quality care at a lower cost.

And the annoying part is... Trump is not going to make it any better.

That's easy really. US citizens get taught from early childhood that paying taxes is the worst thing a human being could do. In US paying taxes is seen as taking something away because gross and net prices are always handled separately. If they'd do it like every other civilized country and just handle all prices as net, nobody would even know or care about taxes.

But as it is this is a systemic social and not an economic problem that in my opinion can never be fixed because fixing it would require people to think differently from what they have been taught all their life. It's just not possible without force. And it won't be fixed in the next 4 years anyway with all houses controlled by Republicans who still can only understand how to pander to their core demographic and know nothing about social economics.

I mean for god's sake, the US is probably the only country in the world where the word "socialism" is used in an inherently bad context.