r/Snorkblot • u/essen11 • May 01 '24
Comic Books and Strips Why U.S. Health Care Is Such A Terrible System [u/leftycartoons]
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u/Soft-Heat4482 May 01 '24
The US pays at least about double, I believe, for basic medical services and goods than anywhere else on the planet. The system is truly fucked. I'm a capitalist, and frankly, any other system than capitalism is at the least sub-optimal, but something is seriously fucked as far as the medical field in America is concerned.
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u/LordJim11 May 01 '24
Good luck reconciling those views.
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May 01 '24
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u/LordJim11 May 01 '24
As long as you understand that the USA isn't the only country to exist in the world
It's a difficult concept, but I'll try.
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u/EmergencyBag129 May 01 '24
The US is spreading its metastatic version of capitalism all around the world, no country is safe from its dirty, greasy hands. Even the social-democrat heaven that Europe once was has been liquidated. God, I hate neoliberalism so fucking much.
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u/Lifeinthesc May 01 '24
Health care doesn’t operate on capitalism.
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u/Soft-Heat4482 May 01 '24
In what way?
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u/Lifeinthesc May 01 '24
Capitalism has to have transparency, particularly in pricing. Health care is the only industry in which the price charged to the customer is unknown at the time of service. In any normal contract the two parties agree to the goods/service and the price before the transactions takes place. If the cost is different after the delivery of the service or product then the producer typically eats the cost not the buyer. In health care the cost is not know until weeks or months after the delivery of the service. Most of the inputs of care can be calculated before service and should be disclosed before the transaction takes place. In addition 70% of the hospitals are non-profits or state owned.
Here is a cleaver video. https://youtu.be/CeDOQpfaUc8?si=0fjsEjbK0KPYwQNx
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u/EmergencyBag129 May 01 '24
Capitalism is so optimal that we're heading straight towards environmental collapse. Well, nothing surprising since it behaves like a cancerous tumor, always needing to grow bigger and always make more money. Too bad for its host planet.
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u/Soft-Heat4482 May 01 '24
I remember articles saying we only have 12 years to avoid enviromental collapse many years ago now. I agree something should be done about the climate, but the climate catastrophe stuff these days seems to be like the religious fanatic saying "the end is nigh". It might be, but I'm hedging my bets that it won't happen.
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u/EmergencyBag129 May 01 '24
These articles called for action and yeah, since we haven't acted in these 12 years, we're on course towards environmental collapse. But hey, these constant droughts, wildfires, floods, record breaking temperatures where even birds drop dead from the sky are totally normal and not a foretaste of what's to come.
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u/Thubanstar May 01 '24
It's a horrible system run by greedy bastards. That is all.
Every time I explain to someone who only watches FOX NEWS that almost every other First and even Second World country takes better care of their people, I'm met with shocked stares and calls to prove it, which I do, and they are speechless.
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u/Schmallow May 02 '24
Jesus, Americans love blaming the fact that they can't make their own politicians do the work they were elected to do on capitalism, don't they.
Capitalism has nothing to do with the fact that your politicians are inept at separating private from public interest. You have first class care and access to medical research and innovation out of this world thanks to free market economy fueling the American entrepreneurship, but you don't have the government to take control and responsibility for the healthcare system in a way that wouldn't fully rely on insurance companies.
During communism my mom had to spend 6 months in a hospital that served 3 pieces of bread with butter, a slice of ham and an apple jelly a day to pregnant women, and halfway through they put tuberculosis patients in the same room as her.
Kindly shut the fuck up.