Obama Legacy - Un-Affordable Care Act

[GURPS]

 

[stgislander]

This is the reason I left the Rep party. They had years to come up with a plan to really fix Obamacare and paying for health care in general. What was their big plan ultimately... eliminate the mandates.

 

[vraiblonde]

I will never forget this moment:



I hope that bastard is roasting in Hell.

 

[SamSpade]

It's not just that Americans pay more - it costs twice as much out of pocket.

Location	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
United States	10,447	10,853	11,916	12,197	12,555
Switzerland	6,602	6,708	7,022	7,582	8,049
Germany	6,290	6,418	6,946	7,518	8,011
Norway	6,495	6,476	6,582	7,043	7,898
Netherlands	5,482	5,644	6,198	6,785	7,358
Austria	5,519	5,625	5,864	6,690	7,275
Belgium	5,351	5,424	5,509	6,022	6,600
Australia	5,191	5,127	5,692	6,226	6,596
France	5,097	5,163	5,453	6,106	6,517
Sweden	5,419	5,388	5,734	6,228	6,438
Luxembourg	5,292	5,380	5,628	6,274	6,436
Canada	5,337	5,223	5,879	6,278	6,319
Denmark	5,307	5,360	5,697	6,372	6,280
New Zealand	3,913	4,250	4,469	4,921	6,061
Ireland	4,877	4,976	5,378	5,861	6,047
Finland	4,330	4,384	4,615	5,252	5,676
United Kingdom	4,188	4,389	4,998	5,467	5,493
Iceland	4,236	4,318	4,632	5,107	5,314
Japan	4,554	4,611	4,620	4,899	5,251
South Korea	3,067	3,291	3,590	4,189	4,570

So among the problems to resolve health care in this country, a big one would be to figure out how to bring down the actual costs.
I suspect SOME of it is how pharma charges Americans more, to finance their research - medication - the SAME medication - is cheaper elsewhere.

Some of it I am sure is regulation, fees and - yeah - malpractice insurance and legal fees. And taxes.

Of course - I do think that American medicine - in many areas - is superior to the rest of the world. But you get what you pay for.

 

[Hijinx]

When hospitalization costs upwards of $15,000 dollars a year the cost is too high I personally pay over $20,000 dollars a year.