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szczuroarturo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Exatcly they dont know shit. While american healthcare system is clearly fucked there are many problems in european healthcare ( very country dependent tho ) ranging from lack of qualified doctors and long waiting times to very expensive treatments not covered in eu for some reason ( the one ive seen the most being uber expensive often experimental treatment where you usualy have to go to america ).

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parrhesia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’m not sure I’m other places but there’s a physician shortage in the US, Canada, but there looks to be a shortage in Europe as well…

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9799366/ euronews.com/…/doctor-shortages-low-pay-and-overt…

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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
From what I’ve seen, treatments not being covered are only the case were those treatments are very expensive and there are other effective treatments (though less effective) which are much cheaper.

Mind you, I’m talking about Public Healthcare Systems, not the so-called Mixed Systems that have mandatory Health Insurance (usually highly regulated and with a Public Insurance option for the less well off) - Mixed Systems have some of the same problems as the US System at least in my experience living in countries with one and with the other kind of system.

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anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I have read the UK NHI doesn’t work very well exactly for the reasons mentioned above.

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- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The UK NHI doesn’t work well because the neoliberal parties in successive governments (both the Tories and New Labour) have been defunding it so that they can - like Thatcher did with the railways - oncy it’s quality has fallen due to lack of funds claim that it’s bad because of Public management whilst it would be much better if it was Private because the Private Sector is much more competent, and privatise it.
  
  Just like the US has fatcats that are perfectly happy to mass murder people for personal profit, so does the UK (and the British Political System is almost as bad as the American) and plenty of those just dream about that country having 13% of its GDP flowing through a Private Healthcare sector like the US so that they can make billions of pounds out of it.
  
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