Hospitals Cater to 'transplant Tourists' as U.s. Patients Wait for Organs
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Where most Americans used to have access to the best medicine in the world, we'll see a country where the very rich get the best and go to the front of the line while the rest get sicker and die earlier from preventable and treatable causes.
Unfortunately, the U.S. has never had the best doctors in the world (outside of cancer treatment). Japan and Russia for example have much better healthcare. However, it has certainly gotten worse now that hospitals are taking advantage of the visa system and bringing over doctors/nurses from other countries to increase their own bottom line.
The regular cost increases are due to immigration (no insurance), medical coding system, and govt subsidies.
You would have to blow up the system and restart to make it affordable, but then that also means millions of jobs gone overnight, a historic market crash, and then no one would want to work in that field as pay would have to be substantially lower.
You also can’t go down the free healthcare route based on the above, along with govt being horrible with everything it touches that we would have a $50 trillion debt in a few years time.