Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Man Can Finally Afford Doctor Visit After Winning Lottery, Has Stage 4 Cancer" video.
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"Deaths due to traffic accidents, and deaths due to the inability to
afford/have access healthcare are two significantly different things"
They aren't as in they are the shortcomings in the systems we have. First rule of economics is that there is no such things as a free lunch, everything comes at a cost. With driving allowing people to drive greatly increases our productivity, but it comes at a cost of 30,000 deaths a year. We can make that 30,000 to be zero if we ban driving, but then our productivity will drop a lot. We allow driving because 30,000 is very small, 0.01% of the overall population. And they happen for numerous reasons where you cannot pinpoint one cause.
For that 45,000 deaths you have to consider this factor. They are poor and bad health is associated with poverty to begin with. A Harvard professors brought this up in a counter argument against that 45,000 number as it is hard to get an accurate number to begin with. There are higher rates of obesity, type II diabetes and smoking with the poor. So the question becomes are they poor due to lacking healthcare access or due to being in bad health to begin with?
With that in mind you have to next consider that no country had that number at zero. People die in every country due to lack of healthcare access due to limited resources. So now you have two situations here. One, that number is not zero anywhere, and two, that 45,000 is not an accurate number and is most likely lower than 45,000.
But besides that, even if it is 45,000, and let us say it is a higher rate compared to other countries (where 0.01% is still small to me). The US leads the world in research and innovation in healthcare. That is where our system is strong. Other systems lack in that even though they "cover" everyone. Looking at that situation you have one of two situations. Either the very poor suffer with no access or bankruptcy. Or they really sick suffer with poor quality and no experimental and progressive care. The first situation is the US system, the other situation is every other country. Someone is going to suffer and it will always be the extreme.
In the end the comparison is is legit as both are examples of opportunity cost. No country has that number as zero unless you lower the standard of "covered" or "access".
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"and just like most commodities, the basic low level version should be very affordable."
Define "affordable". Also, cancer treatment is not the "low level" of healthcare.
" Food, water, clothing, shelter, cars, and even certain levels of education are very affordable for their most basic versions."
Sure, but last I checked the cashier at the grocery store did not have to take 10+ years of post secondary schooling to work there. Doctors do. Last I checked the cars were much cheaper than equipment at hospitals.
" Also, I know you are against paying for other people's healthcare, but
we already do that. Our taxes go towards subsidies for the ACA, and
hospitals charge insured people more to cover the costs of the uninsured
patients."
I do not agree with that system.
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"I know for a fact that's a lie. It's certainly not Kyle or Bernie's
fault you're an ideologically blinded dumbass whose relentless, wilful
ignorance preempts you from understanding simple concepts like "taxpayer
funded", "non-profit health insurance", or "for all". "
Those are talking points. I will agree that "non-profit" is clear, but define "for all"? What standard? Is getting a bottle of Advil for a tumor being classified as covered? I can easily lower the standard of "access" to that and have healthcare "for all". With "tax payer funded" what will be the quality? What will be the tax rate? How will it influence the economy? How do other countries do it? You need details.
" To say nothing of marginally more advanced concepts like "spend half as
much on healthcare per capita" or "have better health outcomes in
almost every measurable category". "
It very much is because you are ignoring several factors. From this paper alone
“Comparisons of Health Care Systems in the United States,
Germany and Canada” Mater Sociomed
"Part of the gap between US and Canadian health care costs may be
explained by a failure to account for Canadian hospital’ capital costs,
larger proportion of elderly in the United States and higher level of
spending on research and development in the US."
And that is from just one source. There are easily many others that give several variables leading to differences in cost. Also, in terms of outcomes, they do not produce better outcomes.
"One certainly cannot find horror stories like this in any industrialized nation but the US"
Oh, that is not true, read these papers of people dying on waiting lists
"True versus reported waiting times for valvular aortic
stenosis surgery" Can J Cardiol. “
"Analysis of deaths while waiting for cardiac surgery among
29,293 consecutive patients in Ontario, Canada" Heart
Or read the story entitled "Natasha, 16, complained of headaches. She died after 13 doctors failed to diagnose a brain tumour"
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Uh, that 45,000 deaths number. Here is the issue with that number. First from a Harvard professor
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Katherine Baicker, a Harvard University health economics professor,
echoed that it’s hard to get good evidence for a connection between
lacking insurance and dying. The uninsured often earn less money than
those who have insurance, she said, and poverty is associated with worse
health.
"So when you see that the uninsured have higher mortality, you don't
know whether it is because they are uninsured or because they are lower
income," Baicker said."
What does that mean? Well, there are higher rates of obesity, type II diabetes and smoking with the poor. So did they die due to lack of access or due to being in bad health to begin with?
Also, 45,000 is a small number. 0.01% of the population. 30,000 die a year in traffic accidents, do we ban driving? No nation has that number at zero. People die in other nations due to lack of access to healthcare.
You have to try much harder than that. It seems like you lack understanding in how complex healthcare really is.
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