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Originally Posted by crockett
You are forgetting that under Obamacare there are no price regulations for health care. If you go single payer, you also regulate the costs of health care and medication.
It's not magic voodoo other countries do and every single one has health care costs at a fraction of ours. Our country is also the only modern western country that doesn't regulate the cost of prescription drugs.
Even fucking Mexico regulates the price of prescription drugs.
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"fraction" is a bit of a stretch, most countries are indeed lower, but there are many reasons for it... it's impossible to make comparisons between countries, conveniently ignore numerous factors contributing to high health care cost in the US and then jump to conclusion that the root of the problem is that our "system" is broken and that socializing medical industry is the only answer...
one major reason that our medical care is relatively expensive on per capita basis is this:
that suggests that there are relatively few doctors... there is low supply and high demand = high prices... obvious solution: get more doctors
so lets perhaps setup more medical schools? "import" medical doctors from other countries by making it very easy to acquire US citizenship? etc
another major problem is this:
this one is a bit trickier... but I'm sure with some brainstorming one could come up with some moderately successful strategies to combat this issue...
but of course there is never any talk about getting to the root of the problem, the problem is always "1%ers", "capitalists", "big pharma", "evil corporations", etc... and the only solution on the table always involves government intervention resulting in bigger government, less freedom and higher taxes...