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The US healthcare system is broken... (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/13/a-punch-in-the-guts/

TLDR deregulating medicine has been a disaster. Monopolistic hospitals, ridiculous drug IP laws, and medical price middlemen with bad incentives make the US medical system the most expensive in the imperial core countries with the worst outcomes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

My insurer bought my pharmacy, and my FSA provider bought my clinic. My wife's wellbeing is one acquisition or merger away from being fully at the whim of a single corporation in which every single component continues to fail to talk to another, and is fully disincentivized to do so.