• jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    It’s a little more nuanced than that. One of the biggest issues is access, not necessarily the quality of the care itself. But when you’re poor and don’t get care, the data looks pretty shitty. If you were to look only at the people with access (or wealthy people in particular), the USA actually looks pretty good. Of course, that’s meaningless for population health and only relevant for individuals.

    I could write like 3 pages about why it’s expensive on top just the broken insurance system.

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      1 year ago

      Plenty of rich people in the US go elsewhere for procedures. But also, plenty of people come to the US for the same. My friend is an ECMO specialist and did his thing (sticking huge tubes into people's arteries) on a few Saudi Arabian princes. No idea what the procedure itself was, though.

      (I'm agreeing with you on the nuance, by the way)