ionelv | US Healthcare Dysfunction

It has been reported that medical bankruptcies are a real blight on the US economy and a prime example of US healthcare dysfunction, yet nothing is as poignant as Netflix's Diagnosis series (e.g. episode 1.3 about Willie Reyes). IMO, it even beats Sicko, the 2017 Pharma Bro scandal or the 2019 news of Americans travelling to Canada to buy insulin due to skyrocketing prices.

Way back in 2009, when Obamacare was in the news, I actually wrote to the NY Review of Books in reply to an article about healthcare and my letter was published and responded to (with a disappointing deflection IMO splitting hairs between coops and nonprofits). Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Currently, there is talk of a Medicare for all proposal (supported by CPC) which has as good a change of getting Senate approval in the next decade as a camel passing through the eye of a needle (even if the House eventually passes it, mirroring in a way the battle to pass ACA, aka ObamaCare and the compromises made to drop single-payer in order to get the conservative Dem Senators on board).

Some might argue that the US healthcare system is fine, yet again and again the data paints a whole different picture.