Health care system from the US seen by a german guy

Germany was paying less for government healthcare spending, anyways.
It sure seems that the United States system is inefficient, which gives people healthcare after profits to the insurance Capitalists.

http://www-tc.pbs.org/prod-media/ne..._might_be_expected_1_blog_main_horizontal.jpg

It would appear to be impossible for many people to defend this chart, and say that Americans benefit.

Fiscal Conservatives who claim to be so good with money, clearly missed the boat on this issue.

 

We have some super hot former cheerleaders driving around flirting with doctors to get them to prescribe their company's drugs instead of other company's drugs.

 

http://www.aihw.gov.au/expenditure-publications/

Knock yourself out
https://www.oecd.org/australia/Health-at-a-Glance-2015-Key-Findings-AUSTRALIA.pdf

8.9% GDP

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS

World bank - % GDP 9.4 for Australia but North America comes in at 16.5%

 

I live in Germany.
Health care insurance 177,- EUR per month; I'm self-employed atm.
Waiting time (since it came up here) for an appointment with my GP is usually 3 - 4 days, if it's urgent, I can see them the same day.
Needed a minor operation on my middle finger two years ago, waiting time one day.
Had a gallbladder operation years ago, waiting time two days.
My sister-in-law had cancer (is now cancer free), waiting time for her two operations were 2 hours.

Nobody tells me I can only see this or that doctor, I'm free to choose.

 

That doesn't explain why though our costs are very high are healthcare results are worse than most developed countries.

 

overall I agree, I can find articles that say the US is number 11 or the US is number 33 or the US is number 18 so there is some subjectivity to the thing.

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what percent of your pay goes to taxes.

 

Bunk. Blame drug companies. They are the ones in control of their prices.

 

U.S. Health insurance company CEOs are the highest-compensated CEOs in the country. Health insurance overhead is about 25% while that of Medicare is about 3%.

Our healthcare total cost per capita is far higher than any other country.
http://www-tc.pbs.org/prod-media/ne...h_than_what_might_be_expected_1_slideshow.jpg

http://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0006_health-care-oecd



Outcomes are poor best compared to other countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_of_healthcare

http://whvnc.us/download/health-care-outcomes-by-country.pdf

 

your post suggests you must be one of putins trolls

 

And that's the bottom line. Excellent and simple!