I wonder if the higher EU food standards impacts it much?

They do

Our food standards are a joke

Embrace the regulation brothers.

you mean how basically they wont let you fish your own waters? I imagine it does

Kek

The only way I could see universal healthcare in the US is with a massove cultural shift with food and automating medicine

Not really automating medicine

But regulating it.

Then people will just stop becoming doctors

Not at all.

Just on the pharmaceutical companies.

thays a fucking jump

People dont strive for excellence when they get nothing in return

Medical school takes alot of time, effort, and money

Part of that is to weed out people without the affinity for the medical field

how is preventing pharma companies from price gouging going to impact doctors? they don't get that profit

seriously, whats being taken away from doctors

Price gouging is already illegal

keep telling yourself that

Citation please

The only time i can think of price gounging in medication

Is with medicare

Sure, but your patent system allows for monopolization of drugs

the guy who bought the rights to epipens and jacked the price up by some rediculous factor? iirc he later sold tickets to punch him in the face?

Point and case: cetirizine hydrochloride

Patented in America, not in Europe.

A decades old drug.

When I needed to purchase some while in America, it cost me 25 dollars for 10 pills

Back home, I can get 50 pills for 2 pounds.

https://www.consumerreports.org/drug-prices/epipen-alternative-that-costs-just-10-dollars/

Martin Shkreli, thats who I was thinking of

Looks like the free market provided

>Alternative
because we don't have a rash of drug "alternatives" leading to deaths right now

25 dollars uninsured

Citation joker

Or was that over the counter?

"Epipen" is a brand name ... emergency epinephrine injectables has always been a thing on the cheap

^ precisely

Another example of privatization being better is optometry

Eye surgeries used to cost tens of thousands