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mojo84 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:35 pm

Vol Texan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:07 pm

MaduroBU wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:50 am The US healthcare industry, in my opinion, needs more free market forces.

This is the root of the problem that caused Obamacare in the first place. The free market has not been able to work in healthcare for quite some time.

There is not a free market in the US healthcare industry and hasn't been for a long time. You can't have the level of government involvement and regulation as we currently have and call it a free market.

What we have is a bastardized system that isn't very dissimilar to half adultery.

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If you want to see what a Healthcare free market looks like, check out laser eye surgery..

Vol Texan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:31 amPeranakan cuisine

Word of the day!

Now I'm hungry.

Vol Texan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:24 pmMedical care is the places I've visited in Thailand is just a good - I can personally attest to that.

If I ever go "walkabout", my wife knows to look for me in Chiang Mai or Phuket.

As much as I enjoy visiting SP, I'm not a big fan of cow-towing to the "benevolence" of government. I'm not sure I could behave myself to SP standards indefinitely.
The food on the Malaysian peninsula is amazing. My favorite culinary region on the planet.

The US healthcare system is best in the world because the people who work in it are "motivated" and relatively "unconstrained". Motivated by every human incentive, from greed to altruism. Unconstrained in an entrepreneurial sense. Their rewards, whatever that may be, are directly linked to their efforts. The things that don't work in US healthcare, are, IMO, linked to government efforts to "manage" the system.

YMMV

Colleague was on a business trip to Poland (circa 2002). Had a small accident and cut their head. Needed a few stitches. Arrived at Polish hospital. Was required to pay CASH up front for services. US insurance not welcome, no credit cards.

They did a nice job on the stitches. Only a small scar on the forehead near the hairline. Overall, very good service, I was told. Just not free.