6/ Blockbuster drugs (with no value judgments on whether they are for HIV, ED, or heart disease) and super-advanced surgery with augmented reality are not "good" or "bad" outside of a societal health condition and simple possibility.
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17/ Again, just an observation. Draw your own conclusions about whether tradeoffs made by other countries are better or worse. The point is, "the US has the best healthcare" is a very narrow claim: "best healthcare that a system based on privatizing diseases can deliver"
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18/ Equally, resist the temptation to write off advances made by other countries simply because they aren't accompanied by the innovation theater of the US: patents, big fortunes, miraculous-seeming outcomes for a few.
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19/ Non-private innovations LOOK different: large-scale assembly line cataract operations at "eye camps" in India for example. Or of course, immunization/vaccination.
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20/ The US used to lead on those fronts too about a century ago (eg. Rockefeller foundation work on eliminating hookwork in the US south), but now mostly that's left to "poor" countries.
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21/ tldr of the thread: Don't buy into naive arguments that the US healthcare system is "best in the world" and if your experience of it sucks, it's only because because "other countries free-ride" and you didn't buy enough Big Pharma shares.
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22/ Addendum to point 12: In some cases a net negative societal health condition may be "negatively privatizable" where some other sector (sugar, tobacco) has a stronger incentive to keep the condition alive than the healthcare sector does to cure it for profit.
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Sort of have to disagree on this point, they love many incurable conditions that have to be "managed" at great expense, e.g. dialysis, diabetes. Or did you mean need for endlessly varying care?
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