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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, liking our current insurance system! You are definitely one of maybe ten people in the whole country![/quote]
Oh I can do this one. 
The way Americans do healthcare is better for the sickest people who want to proceed with expensive treatments to fight for their lives and so, to my mind, the best way. [/quote]
Can you explain further? Genuinely curious.[/quote] 
[b]American healthcare is so expensive because we spend so much money on people who are likely to die anyway. The UK’s NHS just won’t pay if the expense is high and the expected extra years of life are low. [/b][/quote]
Yes, x1000.

American healthcare is screwed up because everyone wants everything even when it's not medically wise or feasible. Sure, we can do open-heart surgery on an 85 year old with multiple comorbidities, but should we? What about when that elderly patient makes it through surgery, but then fails to recover and ends up bedridden, unable to wean from a ventilator or vasoactive IV medications, and acquires an infection, ICU delirium, and/or a bedsore while in the hospital?

I care for patients like the hypothetical one I just described and it's ludicrous. The whole system is terrible, from the way providers and facilities are reimbursed by insurance companies to the false hope and promises we give patients and their loved ones.[/quote]

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