gbaji wrote:
A large portion of what is spent on health care is actually spent on health care research. A whole lot of the new treatments, procedures, medicines, and equipment which advance medical care globally are paid for in the US.
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WRONG! FALSE! UNTRUE!
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1. The WHO and other international bodies who compare healthcare expenditure use a definition of the planning, management and delivery of prophylactic/preventive or responsive healthcare treatment. They exclude technological and pharmaceutical research.
2. Healthcare Research, whether conducted by universities, healthcare institutions or private companies is nearly all funded by the for-profit pharmaceutical or healthcare technology sector.
You really are talking ***** again gbaji.
Once again, let me remind you that the US spends more taxpayers money per head on healthcare management and delivery than UK, Canada & France etc, while only providing a basic service to a proportion of the populace, usually involving co-payments.
The primary reasons your patchy service costs so much more than most other major countries is:
a) a barely regulated private insurance model that inflates the cost of everything to pay shareholders a dividend,
b) small, fragmented delivery organisations that are unable to achieve economies of scale from regional or national entities, and have to take a slice of profit each
c) Per-capita insurance premiums fall in proportion to the number of policy holders.