American Healthcare continues to go backward

[CptnQuirk]

If only there was a simple way to diagnose pneumonia that takes about two minutes and costs a few bucks (ignoring Us health care insanity) so that we didn't have an "unobserved" pandemic.

Can our (essentially) two party form of government ever give us the healthcare we need? Some things need to be regulated to prevent the runaway costs of healthcare and insurance. Everyone needs healthcare. I seem to have good coverage but a lot of my family members are very limited.

 

[steross]

Can our (essentially) two party form of government ever give us the healthcare we need? Some things need to be regulated to prevent the runaway costs of healthcare and insurance. Everyone needs healthcare. I seem to have good coverage but a lot of my family members are very limited.

Highly unlikely in the current format where lobbying rules and there are people making oodles of money skimming huge profits.

 

[RxCowboy]

If only there was a simple way to diagnose pneumonia that takes about two minutes and costs a few bucks (ignoring Us health care insanity) so that we didn't have an "unobserved" pandemic.

I have the full text of the article and can confirm, it does not mention masks at all. If masks increased morbidity or mortality then we would have found out long ago because healthcare professionals wear them everyday.

 

[RxCowboy]

Can our (essentially) two party form of government ever give us the healthcare we need? Some things need to be regulated to prevent the runaway costs of healthcare and insurance. Everyone needs healthcare. I seem to have good coverage but a lot of my family members are very limited.

Highly unlikely in the current format where lobbying rules and there are people making oodles of money skimming huge profits.

Early in this thread steross posted some things about competition in healthcare would decrease costs, that a free market would be better for everyone than even socialized medicine. But healthcare is the least free market in the US and it is difficult for me to see deregulating it. What's more, if we try to empty the trough now, the pigs will revolt. It looks hopeless to me that it can ever be fixed.