OnePercenter
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Malpractice lawsuits account for 2.4% of healthcare spending. Even if we reduced healthcare costs by 2.4% we'd continue to have the most expensive healthcare in the world.
Yes, but we'd still have the best healthcare in the world. 2.4% is still a good chunk of change.
But that's only a small fraction of the problem. There are nearly a dozen ways to lower the cost of our care.
The US doesn't rank in the top 16 for healthcare. We used to be number one before Reagan deregulated the HMO act. Republicans and Corporate America will fuck you every time.
That's because the WHO mostly rates by how many people can get care--not actually the quality.
People come from all over the world to the US for serious medical procedures. I know this as a patient at the world renown Cleveland Clinic. But it's not only the patients, the doctors as well. Because we pay the best in the world, we attract the best talent in the world.
My sister is an employee at the Clinic. She told me many stories about wealthy foreigners who would go as far as to buy an entire hospital floor for security reasons. In fact the elevator would bypass the floor unless you had the code to stop it there.
Here ya go!
The US Ranks Last in Health Care System Performance
FYI; Those that have means always receive preferential care.
So what I'm hearing you say is that you read an article ABOUT the report, and then just ran with the headline, without actually reading or internalizing what the report itself said or how it arrived at its conclusions.
Commonwealth Fund is infamous for cherrypicking and shading its "facts" for its healthcare studies.
Please present opposing facts. Good luck.