People are telling me that private healthcare is actually good, so I'm investigating. Here's a starting point… theweek.co.uk/nhs/63360/priv
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All healthcare has a private element - private suppliers will inevitably be involved at some level, supplying equipment, drugs, etc. It's really about where the line is drawn. Private hospitals? Trusts?
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My (limited) understanding is that there are many important bits, but the real meat and potatoes are who foots the bill and what controls the prices.
You can have any number of private entities involved, but the real question is cost of care, both to the patient and at large.
E.g. in Norway some patients struggle to get adequate care, because their condition relies on treatment from drugs that are predatorily priced.
Norway has some legislative control of this, but can't close every loophole available to US pharma.
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Mostly publicly funded systems with quite strict controls on charges seem to have the best cost to effectiveness ratios from what I've read so far.
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Yes. Unequivocally. Nobody has ever invented a better option, as far as proven performance goes.
Also nothing wrong with supplementing with optional private care, but public options need to be good enough.
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