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Other countries contribute to advancements in medicine.
Back in 2001 I had an operation for a compressed spine. It had gotten to advanced stages due to the fact that my healthcare insurance company refused to let me have an MRI and wanted me to live with the misdiagnoses that I received.
Finally after getting a lawyer involved I got my MRI. Because of the advanced stage I was immediately scheduled for surgery. Again, because of the stage I was in the Orthopedic Surgeon decided to use a technique that was developed in Japan. Fortunately, the surgery prevented me from becoming paraplegic which I came very close to thanks to an insurance company that kept holding off in granting me the much needed MRI.
Japan's per capita cost for healthcare is about 25% of what the cost is in the US.
My question is why should people and businesses pay for the cost of medical advancements by paying the most outrageous cost for medicine in the entire world? Because we are suckers as the rest of the world benefits from the US catering too much to the healthcare industry.
For those who want to continue this bullshit, economist are telling us that the US economy can't these sustain this pattern of skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Health Care Costs Are Killing Us
Health Care Costs Are Killing Us | RAND
What point are you trying to make here?
The truth is that the vast majority of advances, esp drug development, happens in the US precisely because the innovators can get decently paid for their work. With no pay there is no incentive for improvement.
One would think this is so glaringly obvious only the most obtuse would get it. Then you read back through the thread.
Today I learned that no one gets paid in a socialized medicine system.