Anonymous wrote:It’s mostly moneycare. Many physicians put emphasis on elevated LDL to give you statins. With statins comes T2D. With T2D you are fully dependent on prescriptions, and docs. You may hear docs recommending you to cut legs and other unnecessary interventions.

Yup, go read the articles on United Health. UNH controls 90,000 clinicians. They tied things like physician compensation to how many codes they drop onto a patient, because the more codes for conditions that are assigned to a patient, the more UNH can bill Medicare for gargantuan amounts of money. In one scheme, UNH forced their physicians to use what is arguably a garbage device to "diagnose" peripheral artery disease. Of course the device magically starts diagnosing huge numbers of people with PAD. For every person diagnosed with PAD, UNH was basically able to bill taxpayers $3500. Tons of people who would have never been diagnosed and managed for PAD were diagnosed with it using UNH's garbage device. They made billions of dollars using this strategy.

It’s mostly moneycare. Many physicians put emphasis on elevated LDL to give you statins. With statins comes T2D. With T2D you are fully dependent on prescriptions, and docs. You may hear docs recommending you to cut legs and other unnecessary interventions.

Go read the extensive 8 part investigative series Stat News has done on United Health. It is absolutely mindwarping and infuriating. US Healthcare SUCKS because it is for profit driven first and foremost. The crap UNH pulls is exactly why HC in the US is a disaster for gargantuan amounts of money and is the worst in the developed world. Private corporations profiting off HC are reaming taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars per year using all sorts of disgusting shenanigans. The US is a certified dump. The country is much worse now than 30 years ago. We are on the verge of bailing on 3rd world USA. US' garbage Healthcare is a major reason we are seriously considering leaving.

Taiwan is very well-regarded and their national health insurance has been expanded to cover things like dental, prescriptions, and traditional Chinese medicine.

Everyone carries a health ID smartcard.

Anonymous wrote:Americans have sickcare, not healthcare.

Yup. The system has sickcare, each of us have our own healthcare.