j.r. leonard

I wish every American could go to France as an uninsured person and realize how fucked our system is. Fucked up my foot and ankle, panicked about lack of HC, it was painless and cheap.

Totally. Unfortunately I think many of the healthcare opponents haven’t the slightest curiosity about how other countries have healthcare built right into their societies as a given.

America has the worst HC system in the developed world and the worst system for infrastructure development. Same reason, regulate too little where you need it and too much where you don’t.

Again, I mostly agree, though I think the system is less bad when you take certain things into consideration, like our lifestyle and level of violence This is why I reject the notion that “health care” is a singular problem that can be fixed with the right plan

Why would something like our level of violence have any bearing on the quality of our healthcare system? I mean... if more folks are getting hurt, doesn’t that increase the need for an easily accessible healthcare system?

Also, violence fell while premiums skyrocketed. Hard to argue that it is a driving force.

Point here is that there are a bunch of lifestyle and social welfare factors that would make it difficult for US to get health outcomes closer to OECD median even if we had the perfectly designed health care system

The US has the worst maternal health in the developed world. California implemented a near costless checklist protocol and basically got numbers that were close to other industrialized countries. We overstate the differences in health factors compared to provision.