Why is healthcare in the US so expensive?

Like literally 20% of GDP goes into healthcare, which is a fuckton.

In Europe, we are at 10% of GDP.

Is it really just obesity and driving everywhere instead of walking or biking?

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Spics and niggers

Government subsidies.

And who do you think gets hurt the most?

> the poor

Literally this.

Spics in particular will go to the hospital for anything. They clog up the wait times for the stupidest shit.

Pharmaceutical prices out of control and a shitton of money laundering.

Back in the day, instead of instituting a single payer system, the US struck a sort of grand bargain between the unions and the companies. The unions wouldn't strike, and in return their employers would provide health insurance that could be used as a tax write off. This became the model even in sectors that don't have unions. The thing is, insurance got tied to whether you have a good job or not, and not everyone had good enough benefits from their job, or they were too old to work. So we created Medicare to fill the gaps for the old.
The system was still broken though. Plans with poor quality and rising costs led us to 2 options. Either Medicare for All, or a mandate to buy from private employers. They chose the latter option.

Spics and niggers use the ER as free daycare since they know it's impossible for the hospital to bill them since they don't have jobs and give their address/name as "MUH DIK MUHFUGGA". Our society is too "civilized" to simply deny them treatment if they can't pay. So the hospital either eats the cost or passes the cost along to the next person. The next person typically being a white person who's employed so can't dodge the bill the way a nigger/spic can or is on social security.

t. worked in hospital billing

Yes, but why is it so expensive?

Who do you think comes up with the money to conduct clinical trials and research to bring new drugs and treatments to market?

Pains my ass when some smug resident of a UHC country rags on the US for not being one while fully taking advantage of our medical techniques and advances.

You're fucking welcome, faggot.

Because it isn't single payer and people keep sucking the dick of for profit health insurance providers that honestly don't give an honest shit about providing actual healthcare.
Also

Actually WWII wage controls led companies to have to use benefits to compete for talent.

And you forgot about Medicaid. And all of the state healthcare programs. There are already a fuckton of government assistance peogrmas to help people afford medicine that they couldn't otherwise afford - which is contributing to the rising costs. No incentive to reduce prices if people get more and more money to pay for it.

Because instead of coming up with an actual plan, we keep on adding layers from which different costs originate. There's your copay, your deductible, your coinsurance, and out of pocket. I'm assuming your doctor can tell you how much your bill will be. Mine has no clue because most of the money doesnt go to him and it comes from so many places.

Well yes, but that lead to unions threatening to strike if they didn't get their benefits.


I would agree if prices weren't already going up before Medicaid was introduced

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The US is cutting back on medical research (not just the gov but also the private sector). The US is still the leading country for medical and biotech research at 35% of the world share followed by the EU at 28% with most of the rest of the money spent in china, Korea and Japan.

That being said, your claim that "UHC countries" somehow "take advantage" of US spending is ridiculous, as most of the spending is from private companies which sell their products at a market price.

So yes, you are a fucking faggot.

Largly because of medicine and medical devices are over marked way too high.

Then you have frivolous lawsuits because most states don't have Tort reform.

They you have niggers and Mexicans skipping out on their payments.

Still if you have decent insurance US heath care is the best in the world.

Pharma is around 10% of the 3 trillion we spend per year on healthcare. Hospitals get 1 trillion

Try again

Lmfao link to that graph's article please because it's pretty fucking suspect that China and India both increased by 20%.

Also you're a fucking moron if you don't think the drugs your grandpa takes to stay alive didn't originally come from a US provider.

It's a collusion between insurance companies and healthcare providers
>Procedure real cost is $300
>Hospital inflates the cost to $3000
>Your copay is $300, the insurance pays the rest
>You can't be uninsured because you'd die otherwise, so the insurance company gets a portion of your paycheck forever
Meanwhile shabbos goyim are bitching about niggers and spics in a laotian knitting newsletter

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Welfare, subsidies, and conflation of health insurance with healthcare

Since Obamacare fucked up healthcare even more than it already was, most doctors are now employees instead of business owners and they don't give a fuck.

Its like they want to collapse California as quickly as possible

Medicine is money. There are no more cures, only lifelong treatments, for everybody. The old, the young, the kids. There is more than enough medicine to go around. Take it for the rest of your life, or until we find you something better. Remember to get your regular checkups!

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