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Part5 2 of "socialized medicine sucks"... I just bought 90 pills 1mg of melatonin (here it is prescription only).. it will take a week for them to "make" it and cost me $150 dollars to buy it. Would cost me about $10 over the counter int he usa.
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@freemo If you want to compare healthcare costs between a normal system and the US system, cherrypicking like that is not the way. It has the highest healthcare costs in the world, but ranks low in satisfaction and health outcomes. The US system is demonstrably worse.
No country has a perfect system by any means, but the US has a uniquely terrible one among developed countries.
@bjarne The point was not to compare costs of the two types of systems... The point is to highlight the lack of accessibility to certain medications. The cost in israel is actually a positive thing because they still give non-citizens a way to pay their way through to an imported solution. Most other countries dont even let you do that much and you wont have access to critical drugs no matter what you are willing to pay.
I have covered this in more depth recently in a post where I highlight several examples of failures in socialized systems which ive personally expiernced as a person who has lived under at least a dozen different socialized healthcare systems at this point.
To summarize i generally agree the main fault with the USA system is cost, the problem with socialized systems are generally wait time and accessibility to certain drugs and procedures.