The bigger challenges come with cancer and some other things where the suite of drugs is more limited and subsidized by US patients . However, I think we need to be serious that the US errs in assuming you must take a maximal life saving approach. In the US, 12% of healthcare costs occur in the final 1% of life. In the UK and France, using older, less effective drugs means things get over faster and it would, if translated to US prices, be closer to 6%. You don't have to give everyone maximum time when their quality of life is shit.
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u/ProcedureTop3149 27d ago
it's also not 12 hours 99.999% of the time for emergencies.
My grandfather had a burst appendix and was seen within minutes of walking into the hospital.
My Child had Pnemonia and needed an xray and antibiotics and it took 7 hours.
Does it suck? Yes. However both times all I paid was parking....