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The US healthcare system is broken... (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago

It's not a "healthcare system". It's a "health insurance system". And like all insurance systems, it's designed to make money for the insurance companies. It functions quite well in that respect.

Many countries in the world actually have health care systems, but the US does not.