The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.

This one’s a few days old, but I thought it was a good read.

[…] He dismissed the “idea that the American model of private insurance is uniquely evil and engaged in acts of social violence because it denies people too much treatment,” maintaining that all insurance systems, public or private, ration care.

But as I noted in the earlier FAIR article, the Commonwealth Fund (NBC, 9/19/24) found that the US system does, in fact, stand out among other peer nations, ranking “as the worst performer among 10 developed nations in critical areas of healthcare.” Those areas the US falls short in include “preventing deaths, access (mainly because of high cost) and guaranteeing quality treatment for everyone.” The rest of the world is doing better than us on these scores, contrary to Douthat.

Americans see the systems working in the rest of the world and know that the United States could have a better healthcare regime, but that corporate and government leaders simply choose not to.

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  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Sorry man, I used up all of my optimism in 2020. I’ll believe something is changing after it changes, and even then I’ll wait until it’s done, and not overthrown at 0 hour by a conservative supreme court.

    • Saleh@feddit.org
      2·
      3 hours ago

      It took the Syrian people 14 years to free themselves from Assad. If you apply yourself you can free yourselves from predatory scammy private insurance in less time than that.