| | | >> There are millions of people who never had coverage who were running up bills at hospitals, labs and with MDs. Who do you think paid their bills?
The very same people who are paying them now -- the people who pay for health insurance, and taxpayers.
>> Scandinavians and Germans are healthier and live longer.
The length of lives, unadjusted, isn't a usable metric for health care. AT ALL. If you adjust the statistics to remove fatal injuries (as you must in order to compare life expectancies) the US has the highest of all OECD countries:
>> Frequently, wealthy Americans go to Germany to have procedures done.
That's fine; that is what choice is about. They benefit greatly from American innovation, as does the rest of the world. If I had a serious disease and were unrestricted by cost, I would prefer to be treated in the US over any other country, except if another country had someone with particular expertise. Even in the US, there are treatment modalities that are available from one or a few specialists.
By any reasonable metric, the US (before Obamacare) had the best health care in the world. If you want to argue about it, then just say among the best. It isn't ranked with Costa Rica. And it is undoubtedly responsible for most innovation, a status which we are already seeing cracks in after only just a few years of Obamacare. |
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