Why is the American healthcare system so bad?

>its actually not
>if you can afford it.
Brilliant.

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If you just blame the poor for being poor you don't have to feel empathy anymore, it's that simple bro

True. But I am a healthy human being so I do.

and ill bet you think my health care is just amazing :D

Never tried canadian health care but I know a lot of people who drive over the border to buy cheap pharmaceuticals from you guys. I get mine for free through the Native American Health Services.

American healthcare isnt bad. The insurance system is what is bad.

Because aging Boomers have clogged up the system to a Canadian-tier point, where it takes a month to get seen for anything. 2 or 3 months if you have to see a Specialist.

Literally the kikes. Healthcare costs have only gone up so hard because of (((administration))) costs.

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Costs are bloated out of control and the reason this happened in the first place is because the scam that is health insurance allowed for it to even be possible. Now keep in mind the original idea behind health insurance was well-intentioned. But when you tie the national welfare to a private industry, there end up being clashes, as you might imagine. I think that at this point it is all but impossible to cut down costs, so the question is how do you provide insurance to the entire population? And of course the answer is that is very difficult, because private industry thrives on competition and the dollar as the bottom line

Insurance companies entire business model is based on getting paid more than they have to spend, a socialist type system created in the free market. This creates incentive to deny coverage to people who will assuredly cost more than they pay. Once insurance companies are forced to cover high risk people, they will die unless they are subsidized or raise costs.

Despite this business model, they pay for mundane shit, and hospitals know the insurance company has to pay. This gives incentive to increase the cost of healthcare despite the actual cost, because healthcare is no longer on the market, but are out of the consumer’s eye.

Something like private health savings accounts cause hospitals to have to competitively price their services and gets rid of the socialism innate in the insurance system.

>Except back before crushing regulation when it worked.

literally because of boomers. They're all old, fat disgusting and reliant on government pensions and handouts. Eliminate the boomers and the rest of us could easily have a single payer system.

It never worked.

Too lazy to explain all the reasons but yeah it sucks.

It isnt so much administration costs as it is the same thing affecting college costs. Just as colleges now know they have an assured payout due to federally subsidized loans, hospitals have an assured payout through insurance system. When you know that a consumer will pay any price, as a business you to a point have an imperitive to charge more for your employees and stock holders.

And when we become old?

So many people don't pay for their healthcare that the people who do are forced to pay extraordinary mark-ups to make up for those who don't.

In 2011, medical, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies lobbied Congress to the tune of two-thirds of a billion dollars. Gov't regulation exists to serve these industries and protect them from competition. We are not getting out from under them without a game-changer, like a medical robot or really compelling self-diagnosis software.

The cost of administration has risen by 800% since 1990. I don't have the graph on hand, but I'm sure someone does.

Government subsidies have inflated the cost of healthcare, just like government funded student loans have inflated the cost of college. Leftards will try to convince you that the US has a “free market” in regard to healthcare, but when the government spends 40% of all money spent on healthcare, that isn’t exactly a free market. The democrats have done this on purpose of course, knowing that they’ll inflate the costs to the point that even the middle class struggles to pay for healthcare, at which time they will throw their hands up and demand the government does something, and the democrats are always there waiting to nationalize the healthcare system for them. This is how the democrats create a dependent class that must vote for them out of terror that they will starve or die of preventable illness. This is how evil the left is.

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i don't think you understand economics. if someone owes you 10 trillion dollars, then declares bankruptcy, what do you think happens?

That's the excuse they peddle. Valeant Pharmaceuticals paid generic drug manufacturers to not produce competing products for years, and got away with it. It is, in essence, price collusion.

One of the problems caused by government beaurocracy is that
Are all correct, at least in part if not fully. Each problem contributes to the shitty system we have right now and it all eventually leads back to the government’s involvement

Do you have more details on this? Maybe a source on that 40%?

That's communism

Capitalism is the short answer

Back in 2011 before Obamacare went fully into effecf

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Fascism is the problem (not the retarded definition of fascism, but actual economic fascism). Capitalism is the solution (not fascism disguised as capitalism)

reason.com/blog/2014/09/08/govt-spends-record-46-of-health-care-dol

Original source is IBD but it’s pay walled. It’s actually more than 40% now.

>what is the WWII war labor board (no tax for employer insurance)
>what is Medicare
>what is Ted Kennedy's HMO Act of 1973
>what is ObummerCare
we privatize profit, socialize costs, and wonder why everything is expensive