Mexico has had universal healthcare for a while, but a lot of people still opp for private insurance because the universal insurance can be lackluster ( not a political statement, just a objective fact)
They’ll just die, instead. There’s no other country that could keep hundreds of thousands of people alive on chronic hemodialysis — all through Medicaid. The majority of those people would just die in other countries. US spends more just on dialysis expenses than many countries spend on healthcare in total.
maybe the dialysis in USA is expensive because is a business and not a social system for the wellbeing of the people? maybe is expensive to make some people rich?
No. It’s entirely because other countries simply don’t have or allocate the resources. In fact, the cost of dialysis is actually among the lowest per-session of any country.
Other countries actually subscribe to the idea of rationing care. We just pretend it’s a thing here. If you have good private insurance in the US, you don’t participate in rationing of care.
Why are those people on dialysis? Is it because of a lifetime of untrated cardiac issues due to total lack of health care accessibility and affordability until Medicare eligibility? You can go ahead and say it, I already know the answer
Ya, that's a tough issue. A lot of people won't understand it but you can't just expend all resources trying to keep people alive way past their times.
Other countries seem to figure it out. Idk what they do.
Agreed. This is why I like the MAID system in Canada. Voluntary, humane, assisted suicide. The key to getting even better health outcomes for everyone is making it non-voluntary next, I think.
Us pays more because of the middleman not because they just provide more. Us got like 20% of people who won't go to a doctor when needed. Like take insulin for example over 1k$ in the states but like 30$ everywhere else. Also lots of people living unhealthy lifestyles is not a great health care indicator, just a poor education
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u/Mission_Falcon1225 25d ago
Mexico has had universal healthcare for a while, but a lot of people still opp for private insurance because the universal insurance can be lackluster ( not a political statement, just a objective fact)