Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care
The thing I keep wanting to bring up:<p>&gt;Higher prices aren’t all bad for consumers. They probably lead to some increased innovation, which confers benefits to patients globally. Though it’s reasonable to push back on high health care prices, there may be a limit to how far we should.<p>Fundamentally speaking, much like education, while I agree that healthcare is unaffordable to many, I point out that this is different from being too expensive.   I think the idea that we are spending too much of our wealth on education and healthcare is... wrong.<p>I mean, sure, there are limits on what we want to spend, as a society, on healthcare, and yes, I personally think that a lot of the public money being spent on healthcare (and I think a lot of public money <i>should</i> be spent on healthcare) should be spent on research that benefits all, but overall?  as a society?  I don&#x27;t think spending 17% of our GDP on healthcare is a problem (assuming we&#x27;re receiving good benefits from that, which I think we are)<p>And yeah, maybe there needs to be &#x27;community college&#x27; equivalent of healthcare;   a system where anyone can show up and get care that is good but not the best for next to nothing.  And yes, we do need more and better-funded research for the public good.     I certainly don&#x27;t have a problem with private industry researching new drugs for us, but we have to understand that their incentives are... different, and that there&#x27;s a place for public-funded work for the public-interest.