Why is healthcare in America so expensive?
America spends about 18% of its GDP on health care, more than most countries in the world. Only Switzerland, Luxembourg and Norway spend more on health care than the United States. At the same time, the United States ranks only 37th in the ranking of the effectiveness of the healthcare system from the World Health Organization (WHO). The top three in this ranking are France, Italy and San Marino, writes CNN.
According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, expensive medicine in the US is due to a distorted pricing system. Thus, drug prices in the United States are among the highest due to the fact that drug manufacturers set their own prices. In other countries, there is a regulatory body that monitors fair pricing.
In addition, the lion's share of funds goes to administrative expenses. America's medical billing system is overly complex. Their calculation and operation of insurance companies is not free; all this requires personnel and special software.
In other countries, doctors are more versatile than in America, and identify the problem faster.
Gupta also recalled the term "defensive medicine". It is a common practice in America for doctors to prescribe many additional tests, not to detect the disease, but to prevent possible litigation by patients and insurance companies in the event of a mistake.
According to him, despite the regulation and bureaucracy in the health care system, American doctors are among the most highly qualified specialists in the world and can cope with very rare and complex cases of disease.
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