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As we all know, the US does not have universal healthcare; rather it has healthcare companies. Denmark on the other hand does have universal healthcare and here's the best part: it spends less per capita than the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita
The US spends the most per capita when it comes to healthcare, surpassing even countries which have universal healthcare.
So here's the question: What is the extra money going to specifically?
As we all know, the US does not have universal healthcare; rather it has healthcare companies. Denmark on the other hand does have universal healthcare and here's the best part: it spends less per capita than the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita
The US spends the most per capita when it comes to healthcare, surpassing even countries which have universal healthcare.
So here's the question: What is the extra money going to specifically?
Cancer cost me tens of thousands of dollars (certain treatments wasn't covered by my insurance),and I am rich.I can't imagine how rough it is for the poor.
i'm sorry to hear this. hope that you are doing better now.
As we all know, the US does not have universal healthcare; rather it has healthcare companies. Denmark on the other hand does have universal healthcare and here's the best part: it spends less per capita than the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita
The US spends the most per capita when it comes to healthcare, surpassing even countries which have universal healthcare.
So here's the question: What is the extra money going to specifically?
It was a year ago and I feel great.
Even down to my preferential weight (obesity is a common occurrence in the restaurant business).
It was my wife the oncologist who took care of me.
I have to admit,it was rough.She did the surgery on me and had to remove a foot and a half of colon,my entire spleen,half my pancreas,and part of my abdominal wall.
She told me I actually died twice on the table.
It was her love and skill that brought me back.
glad to hear that you are ok. recovering from that in a year is quite an accomplishment.
did your wife have any issues with doing the surgery? i can only imagine how stressful something like that would be. kudos to her for doing such a good job.
According to my wife's(the doctor) ranting,it's because of the health insurance industry and liberals.
Well, I don't know if I'd say it's the health insurance companies, their profit margin isn't huge. The cost of healthcare of itself is expensive, not to mention pharmaceuticals.
Any more questions?
I agree,but I know better than trying to tell that to the missus.
Well, I don't know if I'd say it's the health insurance companies, their profit margin isn't huge. The cost of healthcare of itself is expensive, not to mention pharmaceuticals.
we both know that denmark has high taxes but the US is outspending denmark in healthcare, that's what I'm saying. Denmark is spending less per capita in healthcare than the US. If you look at any chart, you will find that America (usually) outspends other developed countries (even though it doesn't have universal healthcare) every year (per capita). If this country transfers to a single healthcare system like dennmark and france and doesn't give subsidies to healcare companies, I believe that it will not only save lives but also money.
For example.. our educational costs to doctors is born by out healthcare system. When you go to the doctor.. you are paying his education cost in what you are charged.
In other countries.. education of their doctors is public.. so it ends up in the public education cost.. but not on "healthcare" cost.
What that means is.. a worker in America working a hard physical labor job.. works 10 years or more than someone working the same job in france. Which means they will incur more healthcare costs (cost of 10 years of hard labor).
foreign aid spending only consists of 1% of government expenditureThen there is the fact that americans subsidize healthcare for much of the world..
science is also at 1%WE do a high percentage of the worlds research.. and that cost is born by US consumers
The Condition of Education - Elementary and Secondary Education - Finance - Education Expenditures by Country - Indicator May (2016) The US spends more on education per capita than most developed countries.
although accidents do happen, injuries which require going to the hospital rarely happen to a person. On the other hand, sickness which requires going to a doctor happens regardless of being at work or retired.
Overexertion injuries are among the most costly and disabling work-related injuries in the United States. According to the 2007 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index, overexertion injuries were responsible for $12.7 billion in direct costs to U.S. employers in 2005 – more than any other type of injury.
A form of overuse injury caused by repeating the same motions for hours on end over extended periods of time, RSI is often associated with computer keyboard work. It's not a new disease, however. Hand and arm problems associated with repetitive tasks first appeared in world medical literature in the 17th century with reports of "milkmaids' arm."
In the United States, blue-collar workers reported the first cases of RSI in 1912, when telegraph operators developed a mysterious ailment known as "telegraphists' cramp." Other workers reported such diseases as "washerwoman's thumb" and "glass arm," the latter a painful condition afflicting Morse Code operators during World War I. Assembly line workers, seamstresses, meat packers, and construction workers were later diagnosed with repetitive motion injuries as well.
Manufacturing workers, in fact, make up the lion's share of RSI or "repeated trauma" cases reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But over the last 25 years, as computer use has exploded, there's been a flood of such injuries among computer users as well.
In many offices across the country, employees are donning arm splints, missing work because of crippling pain, and even undergoing surgery due to injuries linked to repetitive keyboard work.
One government study puts the cost of RSI between $17 billion and $20 billion a year. [/QUOTE
The older a person is.. and the more time on the job the risk of a repetitive injury goes up.
foreign aid spending only consists of 1% of government expenditure
Not foreign aid.
U.S. consumers are in fact subsidizing other countries’ public health systems, at least with respect to drug pricing,” Jacob Sherkow, an associate professor at New York Law School, said.
These price discrepancies and their implications are well known throughout the industry but rarely discussed outside of it. Pharmaceutical companies have long defended the high price of drugs as necessary to pay for the research and development of new drugs, but the differences in pricing essentially means that consumers in the U.S. are contributing more than those in other countries. The U.S. accounted for 46 percent of global life sciences research and development--the vast majority of which is in biopharmaceuticals--according to the December 2013 issue of R&D Magazine.
“The U.S. is the global leader in biomedical innovation,” Mark Grayson, a spokesman for PhRMA, a pharmaceutical industry trade group that represents many of the world’s biggest drug companies, said in an email. “The research is for medicines that will be sold in the U.S. but obviously will be sold around the world,” he added.
International Business Times - Business News, Technology, Politics
And not just pharma.. all sorts of biotechnology as well. Its not "government" subsidy.. its subsidized by US consumers in the healthcare system.
A US company develops a new medical device or procedure. Its introduced into the US and its at a high cost. Which pays back the company for all the research and testing that was done. then.. when the procedure is fully developed, is more massed produced and is now cheaper.. European countries then allow this procedure into their system at a substantial decrease.
and you would be largely wrong about that.
Here is why a lot of this "per capita" when it comes to other countries is BS.
1. Our healthcare costs include a lot of costs that are taken out of the equation for other countries.
For example.. our educational costs to doctors is born by out healthcare system. When you go to the doctor.. you are paying his education cost in what you are charged.
In other countries.. education of their doctors is public.. so it ends up in the public education cost.. but not on "healthcare" cost.
Another example is retirement costs. for example.. our country has people that retire after 65.. when our social security kicks in.. and many continue to work after that. Other countries have more generation retirement systems.. for example France has a system where if you work in a hard physical labor job.. you can retire at 55.
What that means is.. a worker in America working a hard physical labor job.. works 10 years or more than someone working the same job in france. Which means they will incur more healthcare costs (cost of 10 years of hard labor).
In france.. that cost is shifted toward having that person retiring earlier.. and ends up in another column than "healthcare".
another example is Malpractice costs. In America.. what you are charged reflects the cost of malpractice insurance...
In other countries.. there is often a public managed malpractice system that manages malpractice. Again.. shifting costs out of the healthcare column.
2. Then there are the demographic differences. americans work longer, work harder, take less vacations, have more stress, have more obesity, have more sedentary lifestyles... than most countries and this leads to higher healthcare costs
3. Then there is the fact that americans subsidize healthcare for much of the world. WE do a high percentage of the worlds research.. and that cost is born by US consumers. Once those technologies are proven and made cheaper.. that's when they are approved for us in those countries.
That's just to name a few differences that account for the difference.
Now.. MancSkippers graph shows my point well.
You and many others assume that the difference of cost is due to having a different healthcare system,
However.. if you look at Mancskippers graph.. you will see that other countries.. with SIMILAR SYSTEMS.. have widely varying costs as well.
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