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[โ€“] Alvinum@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They won't provide or create the framework for proper health care in the US because private health care is a very effective extortion scheme that can pay for the laws they want.

And the pharma companies like it like that.

"Oh, you like living? Too bad you live in the US, where we will charge you 10x what everyone else in the world pays for the insulin you need to survive. Pay up or die.

https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/insulin-us-costs-7-times-canada-california-suing-makers-scheming-illegally-increase-price/amp/

There is a reason the US has the most expensive health care system in the world, while the health care system quality using objective criteria,l is usually around rank 40-60, below practically all western countries, below cuba and comparable to Armenia or Morocco.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290168/health-index-of-countries-worldwide-by-health-index-score/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems_in_2000

The US is also basically the only industrialized country where medical bankruptcy is a thing.

[โ€“] CodingSquirrel@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong, but I think the above poster was sarcastically pointing out that people who believe that the government is highly coordinated and competent don't trust the government to run healthcare because it's too uncoordinated and incompetent. Both incredibly strong and also laughably weak.