Das US-Gesundheitssystem ist KEINE Marktwirtschaft im Gegensatz zu vielen, unfundierten Behauptungen. Es ist geplagt von Unmengen staatlicher interventionistischer Maßnahmen und Vorschriften sowie von Lobbyismus und Vetternwirtschaft. Und das ist der Grund für seine astronomischen Preise.
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history of US health care policy from the beginning to Obamacare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK3pJ_c3rUA
äußerst lesenswerter Artikel!
How American Healthcare killed my Father
The Atlantic, September 2009 issue
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-american-health-care-killed-my-father/307617/
In Government-Regulated Healthcare, There Is No Competition
https://mises.org/wire/government-regulated-healthcare-there-no-competition-no-competition
The Free Market Medical Revolution
Interview with G. Keith Smith, MD, board-certified anesthesiologist in private practice since 1990
https://mises.org/library/free-market-medical-revolution
The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole
by Doug McGuff MD, Robert P. Murphy
Gebundene Ausgabe 21. Oktober 2015
Overcharged
Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care
by Charles Silver and David Hyman
2018
America spends almost $4 trillion a year on healthcare, around twice what most other developed nations spend per head, and approximately half of it is taxpayer funded. With only 4 percent of the world’s population, the US accounts for half of the pharmaceuticals consumed worldwide. If more healthcare were the answer, the US would be the healthiest country on the planet. Yet while Japan’s and Singapore’s healthcare expenditures per head are only a fraction of those of the US, Japanese and Singaporeans live over five years longer than Americans.
(2022)
https://mises.org/wire/spending-more-government-money-healthcare-does-not-improve-health-outcomes
But so long as government funds continue to prop up the “firefighting” model of healthcare, where we wait until people get really sick and then treat them with expensive drugs and surgery, we are unlikely to see the emergence of many “fire prevention” programs.
(2023)
https://mises.org/wire/government-throws-money-heart-disease-prevention-better-cure
Physician Burnout: Another Consequence of Medical Socialism
https://mises.org/wire/physician-burnout-another-consequence-medical-socialism
Private Medical Care STILL Is a Better Deal Than Government Care
https://mises.org/wire/private-medical-care-still-better-deal-government-care
The burgeoning cartel meant “a skewing of the entire medical profession away from patient care toward high-tech, high-capital investment in rare and glamorous diseases,” wrote Rothbard, “which redound far more to the prestige of the hospital and its medical staff than is actually useful for the patient-consumers.”
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Since the early 1900s, medical special interests have been lobbying politicians to reduce competition. By the 1980s, the U.S. was restricting the supply of physicians, hospitals, insurance and pharmaceuticals, while (at the same time) subsidizing demand.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanks-state-control-doctors-have-become-gods