"It's more dangerous for a senior to go into a hospital than a soldier"
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Why US health care is such a disaster.
It's structural.
There's no shortage of money spent, but most of the money spent is wasted.
A handful of people profit: Big Pharma, hospital owners, medical equipment makers, and private insurance companies.
And millions of industry employees go a long with it so they can get a paycheck.
Here's US "heath care" policy in a nutshell:
The best way to make money is price high, provide excess service, be sloppy about safety, under-invest in information technology and remove all accountability.