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> and the most advanced healthcare

(ignoring Australia and other countries having longer life expectancies and better cancer recovery rates, sure)

> not that often

It's telling you have to downplay this at all.

> depends; California and New York yes, Texas no

and the more than 40 other states? See the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Report Card (spoiler, it's a C)

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> the least efficient healthcare system in the world

> the more free you make those markets, the better they'll get.

How can you concede the first point and argue the second in the same breath? Are you about to tell me European healthcare is cheaper because its some bastiom of deregulation?

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European healthcare sucks. Waiting for your appointment for months is not unheard of. (I can’t compare EU and US, but my guess is the problems are largely the same, just less pronounced.)
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You have fallen for propaganda.

I recently moved to Ireland (an EU country).

When I wanted to get set up with a new GP, I was offered an appointment the same week. I wasn't ready to actually go in yet, so I asked for one the following week. My wife needed some specialty care, and when we made the appointment they were very apologetic that they could't give us an appointment until 2.5 weeks later. (For a non-emergency consult, preparatory to a specialty surgery.)

Meanwhile, in the US, when we tried to make GP appointments, they were routinely not available until 6-8 weeks later. And that's if it was even possible; we had 2 GPs just leave the area over the course of a few years, and in both cases we were left to find our own replacements, despite the fact that both were part of larger medical practices with at least a half-dozen GPs each (plus others).

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I've heard stories of USians waiting months for their insurer to agree to pay...
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>>crumbling national infrastructure

> depends; California and New York yes, Texas no

lol. lmao.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

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They didn't build sheds around the wells that were insulated enough so the wellheads froze up from the water in the extract, not due to crumbling infra. Now, whether they've fixed the problem, I guess we'll see the next time it hits 0°F.
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so advanced healthcare that maternal death ratio is higher than russia.
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> actually it's better than most rich countries after controlling for race/ethnicity

Our public education is so pozzed in Dem/Blue states, though; that has nothing to do with ethnic makeup in the students. Bloated budgets fueling insidious DEI agendas with openly consumer-hostile teachers unions. Maybe in sane states it's better.

> and the most advanced healthcare

We have miraculously great trauma medicine and surgery and diagnostics. The NICU medicine I've seen at work is like science fiction.

That said, I'd argue my family doctor is just a brainless expert system for prescribing toxic pharma products. There's nothing healthful about that aspect of our healthcare. The terrible US diet and these wretched drugs are why we're so sick and the trauma doctors are so busy. It's complicated why it costs a fortune and yet we're so sick.

Americans need consumer protections so badly!

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> actually it's better than most rich countries after controlling for race/ethnicity

Yikes dude

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>actually it's better than most rich countries after controlling for race/ethnicity

Can an American explain what this is supposed to be saying? Sounds like a right wing sound byte.

Are black people supposed to be inherently less healthy???

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They actually said that about education, so we are supposed to believe that eg black people are inherently less smart. I stopped reading their post before this tho :)
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