Nazime

Weebmacht

I hope Sanders wins

He'll fix the USA.

Nah, he'll probably get another 2 beach houses

*wink wink*

✊🏻 Sanders drug price controls now!

Discord is biased towards the republicans, they have 🐘 emoji, but not a donkey. But we do have <:Communist:462285823824494592> to balance it out.

https://youtu.be/OLmbiX5RGmo

Why do Americans have the highest heath-expenditure, but a low life expectancy compared to the Western world?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure?stackMode=absolute

This seems like a pretty fair analysis. https://dpeaflcio.org/programs-publications/issue-fact-sheets/the-u-s-health-care-system-an-international-perspective/

"In 2014, 283.2 million people in the U.S., 89.6 percent of the U.S. population had some type of health insuranc"

Jesus christ

Less than 90%?

"The end result of the U.S. approach to health care is poorer health in comparison to other advanced industrialized nations"

Accurate

TLDR: Yanks are fat and their infants are dying at a higher rate

They didn't really point out that US does nearly all of the worlds research and medical technology investment which other countries benefit from

Doesn't really help all that much when their population isn't doing all that well does it?

Medical investments

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"Health insurance premiums in the U.S. are rising fast. From 2005 to 2015, average annual health insurance premiums for family coverage increased 61 percent, while worker contributions to those plans increased 83 percent in the same period. This rate of increase outpaces both inflation and increases in workers’ wages."

**OH NO**

U.S. health care specialists are among the best in the world. However, treatment in the U.S. is inequitable, overspecialized, and neglects primary and preventative care.[77] The end result of the U.S. approach to health care is poorer health in comparison to other advanced industrialized nations.

There isn't as much money in "preventative care" :))))

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181970

You'll find this an interesting read

"Physicians reported that an interpolated median of 20.6% of overall medical care was unnecessary, including 22.0% of prescription medications, 24.9% of tests, and 11.1% of procedures"

pretty much though I am seeing a trend in the insurance industry beginning to offer incentives for preventative care

I wonder why 💰 💰 💰 💰

You'll like this one as well:

https://khn.org/news/faced-with-unaffordable-drug-prices-tens-of-millions-buy-medicine-outside-u-s/

"When purchased outside the country, many prescription medicines cost half or less than they do in the U.S."

Free markets are working guys!!! :)))

Sources aren't as strong as they could be in that article.

that has a lot to do with our FDA and patent law, other countries don't allow pharmaceutical companies to renew patents like we do. Prevents free markets