Why are medical costs more expensive in the United States?

The NHS is just as expensive but they hide the actual costs.

Amerifats think it's all free.

actually, it's widely known that tax dollars fund medicine research, not private dollars.

This, and these choose dumb niggers and spics over White and asian A students. Thats why many go abroad to be trained

Insurance scamming, corruption, greed, frivolous malpractice suits, healthcare lobbyists.

We've imported shitty quality scum from the third world in huge numbers while prohibiting ERs from turning them away. The result is the ER has become a free general clinic for the third world. Since they can't or won't pay, the cost gets passed along to those who do pay.

As someone who works in the lab at a hospital, lab work is absolutely insanely priced. However, there is a reason for it. We run a test called a BMP, a Basic Metabolic Panel. Basically it will test simple things like potassium level, sodium level, Chloride, etc. This one test costs upwards of $50 and it takes us 20 minutes to run it. For patients that come in from the emergency department, they have STAT tests, which are prioritized first. There is a stat fee of $25. One test can run a trauma patient $75, and the ED usually orders a battery of 15 tests standard. However, the reason they're so expensive is because like anons said, there is a lot of insurance fraud. We also have problems where homeless people will come into the emergency department, tell them they're sick so they can have a place to stay out of the cold. We can't just turn them away, so they usually will run a test or 2, tell them they're fine and then kick them out. That's $100 worth of tests that we won't get paid for simply because some homeless dude wanted a place to stay for the night. It's true there is a huge monopoly on medical supplies, which is another big factor as well. The collection tubes alone for the test can cost $15-$20 depending on which collection tube needs to be used.

tax dollars dont fund private companies research you brainlet

Because health services are vital and when your life literally depends on it, people know it is easy to extort money from you. Without government regulations this will only get worse.

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Private healthcare in the UK is cheap af compared to the US though.

>Without government regulations this will only get worse.
Yeah, that's why these insane costs weren't a thing until the government started regulating it. That's also why Obamacare only increased healthcare costs by 400%. More government = more niggers and more jews.

It's crazy that people still trust our corrupt government. You know all of the companies making bank off of medical supplies are owned by someone who has friends in some position. The entire thing is a who knows who to make money off of the general public.

If they stop trusting in daddy government, they'll have to think for themselves, which they are incapable of doing. These people need to be left behind and starve.

To pay for the ones that don't have insurance?

Because people cant just accept the fact they are going to die and spend 100 of thousands of dollars just to extend their life a few months

government regulations in favor of private interest groups

Bernie is probably filled with enough boiling rage that he might live long enough for another shot at the presidency.

Because we hold the entire West’s medical research, manufacturing and development in our hands. We therefore subsidize their costs by increasing ours.

bernie belongs to the same clique, fool

listen to their ideas and think about the long-term goal these ideas are leading to and you will quickly find out that DEM and REP have the exact same goals

countries are competing with each other since it’s about the companies doing the research and their profit - you are paying taxes to the pharma research because corporations own your country, imbecile

Proper regulation. With every regulation and law there are people that find loopholes and manipulations, that's capitalism at work. As long as systems are in place there will be people trying to profit. That can't be helped. I'm saying that the regulations need to be a constant work in progress.

What do you honestly think would happen if healthcare were not regulated? Look at Martin Shkreli and tell me that wouldn't be standard practice. Stuff like this is to be expected, its why people with the power to stop it should be vigilant.

>What do you honestly think would happen if healthcare were not regulated? Look at Martin Shkreli and tell me that wouldn't be standard practice.
It's standard practice right now because of government overrearch. He just publicly talked about it to make it an issue so morons like yourself who know it happened and you believed the jew propaganda. If it weren't for niggers and jews in government, I could buy drugs from foreign countries for less than a dollar. Government is the problem and has always been the problem. Until every last nigger and jew is dead, they will always be the problem. Fuck the government and fuck stupid niggers like you.

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Apart from the factors already mentioned itt, when populations become wealthier they dedicate a higher % of their income to health.

This is simply because healthcare beyond the point of emergencies is secondary to other needs. Thus why when populations become wealthier, you start seeing them spend more into these kind of secondary costs. In america the costs are high compared to other countries mostly because of preemptive medicine, aka, the one you buy when you don't know what the fuck to do with all that money anymore.

It’s mostly due to government regulation. The clear examples are obamacare and school loans guaranteed by the government.

I'd say insurance companies are even bigger culprit for high medical costs in US. They are trying to make profit out of everything by all means they can. Too many lawyers involved in things they shouldn't be involved in at all.