Why is Healthcare so expensive in the USA?

How do we fix this?

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By not being fat or unhealthy

>rattlesnake bite

Fake news.

Because your had healthcare paid by government before, so companies raised prices, because government will pay them anyway.

>How do we fix this?

By electing someone who has the balls to do what's right to fix that problem, not Trump that' sfor sure or the republican party. Don't worry, help is on the way, hang in there, universal healthcare will happen in our lifetime.

If the member has no insurance, the hospital can charge how much they want. If the member has state Medicaid then the remaining charges are written off.

If the memer had insurance and went to the hospital in an emergency then the health insurance should pay.

You show me a receipt but dont explain the scenrio. Fuck you.

Don't fuck with snakes. Fixed

>By not being fat or unhealthy
> You only get sick when you're fat or "unhealthy"
Damn you're stupid.

>only one company produces the antivenom
>they're from bongland
>typical treatment course of the antivenom is like ~ $9 k
expensive to be sure, but a bargain when the alternative is (and has always been, up until this century) a painful death
guy needed like 10 standard courses for some reason
probably because he was, by his own admission, trying to take a selfie with the rattlesnake and it pumped a shit ton of venom into his arm

if you do a stupid thing on purpose, and get injured as a result, society should not bail you out
in fact, you should be liquidated and turned into biofuel to power glorious natsoc futuretech

that being said, white people should have universal health care with fitness/lifestyle requirements and mandatory genetic testing before birth

Because of the government.

>Eighty years ago, Americans were also told that their nation was facing a health care crisis. Then, however, the complaint was that medical costs were too low, and that health insurance was too accessible. But in that era, too, government stepped forward to solve the problem. And boy, did it solve it!

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Do you people just not have insurance or some shit? Or are you using such borderline useless insurance that it only covers heart attacks?

I went to Urgent Care last year with a sprained ankle and only paid $80 out of pocket for an examination, brace, and explaination of how to recover properly. By shills logic it would have costed me $8,000

Well yes if you are careful you wont get sick unless you live in an unhealthy shithole or dont do sport and eat healthy

Can't afford health insurance without subsidies. I'm a student, not a fucking CEO

It's simple. People NEED health assurance because you can get a cancer at 20 but you can't plan for it. Getting healthcare is NOT just like another trade, something vital puts you in a situation where the usual rules of trade don't apply. If you got stabbed, you can't take the time to compare the offers and pick the "best" hospital, you go to the closest.

That's why the health system must be supervize by the state; by an entity not looking for profits.

Problem is, you can't deprivatize the entire chain of healthcare (well you could but let's say we don't want that), you have to deal with private labs who wants to maximize, like any business, the profits. That's why the costs get higher and highter since people or the state will pay no matter what.

The solution ? Having rules. Getting new products to be sold at an high prices for a few years and then put it in public domain and make sure the labs KEEP PRODUCING IT. Why ? Because the state says so and they have to obey if they want to sell their meds.

The laws are already there, what is missing is the political will, lobbies are way too influencial for that.

I'm neither fat nor unhealthy but was billed $10,000 for a ER visit that consisted of little more that an X-ray, some medications, and a routine lab test. My insurance paid 7,000 and the hospital had to eat the difference. Still, it seems clear they inflated their billing. Think and learn before you speak.

This, very much this. And also S

At least you're not on the NHS

There are 6 billion of us yet nobody asks why people aren't just permitted to die at 20.

Obesity is a huge drain in the system.

>$153,000 dollars versus slightly inferior care

The fuck?

The price is inflated because health insurance companies can only make 20% profit, so they increase the price of everything to drive up their profit margins. Fun fact, the united states government spends more per person on healthcare than the u.k. which has free socialised healthcare.

Kind of a shit example, because producing anti venin is a time consuming and very expensive process.

But to answer your question - healthcare in America is so expensive because doctors get paid so well. A specialist in his 40's can expect mid six figures.

afaik, the US government doesn't negociate prices for medicine. And it's the only case in the civilized world.
Also no real public health policies.
Negociating (imposing lower prices) should fix it.

>Slightly inferior care

My wife (American) was literally shocked at how good our care was.

Fortunately she got her shock checked for free.