Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?

NINE YEARS AND STILL AWFUL.

John greeen

QUIETLY BEING RIGHT: The main thing that's wrong with American Healthcare is that Africa doesn't have Health Care that's free at the point of use. Take your time.

What’s one thing you would change ?

So many reasons that excuse the state of our healthcare do wacky logic loops that essentially come back to blame people for not having enough money to give after they've given all their money to these intricately intertwined, collusive corporate entities that make up the system as a whole, free to game it and change the rules when it suits them.

It's lame to repeat, but I'll do it anyway: land of the fee, home of the paid. Our government has long-since besmirched its Constitutional duties to provide food and protect us in exchange for our various taxations, but SOMEHOW they've normalized the ability to tax us while begrudging a return for our investment ON TOP OF selling themselves to corporate lobbying and other kickbacks via donations, super PACs, and "charitable foundations" that launder money into further influence. We're being fleeced at every turn, and the only reason it won't improve is because self-proclaimed "pAtRiOtS" only ever get mad when people want this crap to change. "If you don't like it, move out!!" type lunacy. Uuuuugh rant....

Nine years later😢

Because people like money and realize there’s no money to be made in a cure, but there certainly is in medicine.

You should make an updated version of this, including covid relief, and antibiotic treatments that ive heard are tricky in Canada. Would love to have something more current for my closed off mom who thinks the country would shut down with any all inclusive insurance

Right wingers will ignore any and all data on this while continuing to cite provably false claims about nationalized health care services. All they have to do is say the word "socialist" and their entire party instantly opposes something. Even though countless other "socialist" programs already exist. The elderly tend to vote right and therefore oppose national health care, while simultaneously using Medicare and fervently opposing any cuts to it. It's hypocrisy on a monumental level.

We'll never get government provided Healthcare because at this point our population is too stupid to vote in it's own best interest.

There are millions of lower class people willingly voting for people who want to take away what little safety nets they have. They've been told hard work is literally all that's required to be wealthy and for some reason, even after working for decades with little to show for it, these people continue believing that.

It'll take a complete collapse for anything to actually change.

Nine years later I'm going to make a response on your last point.

There is a singular reason why it is the way it is in the US: Greed.

All the other problems? They come back down to that one common denominator.

I really don't understand why U.S. is this way. It does not make sense. The population should make a revolution, a war in order do change this.

hey you're the crash course guy

how many times did you restyle your hair?

summarised as: pure, unadulterated greed.

Health care providers generally dont refuse treatment regardless of ability to pay, so much of todays health care is rendered for free, and the ones who subsidize it or those who acually pay, thats partly why bills are so astronmoically high. In other words, the cost burden is shifted to the honest. (Not to say that those who dont/cannot pay are dishonest, but economics is economics).

It's actually a pretty simple problem...the for profit business model is reliant on failure of prevention. And unfortunately the whole US economy is reliant on a thriving healthcare industry. So if we want healthy people AND a for profit business model, the business model needs to be reversed so that healthcare providers somehow make more money off prevention than treatments. Causes must get fixed before they produce symptoms. Revenue must be tied to prevention, with penalties for not preventing. If we decided to do there would be a quick and epic focus on prevention and health in general...but it would also be a short term economic disaster worse than the Great Depression because like 75% of healthcare/pharma jobs would no longer be needed, the sugar/junk food industries would also go broke and many restaurants too.

This is really great. Thank you, first Time watching your channel

While your premises are true, what you neglect to realize is that the reason for such little price negotiation is because of the lack of competition within this industry. If you're bidding on a dollar, every bidder would like to pay as little as possible, but when other people want this dollar it becomes difficult to do so. You may bid 50 cents, someone else may bid 51, 52, 55, 60, etc...

This is a fundamental consequence of competition. However, within the healthcare industry there is so much regulation, federal and local fees, or otherwise inefficient laws instituted by governing powers which completely offset this. Big pharma companies are often subsidized by the government, which gives them disproportionate funding to their actual market value. In actual healthcare distribution, laws such as certificate-of-need make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market, and already existing ones are slowed down by bureaucratic powers. An example of this is when trump reformed telehealth, which made hospital services during covid significantly easier and more efficient to arrange, which led to higher quality outputs.

People like to say that the for-profit model in which hospitals are ran in America is the reason, but they conveniently ignore how the market will situate itself to best help consumers. They often say this free-market system creates "pharma monopolies", but ignore that the reason for these healthcare giants is not from the free market, but lack thereof.

I live in Australia and it cost $60 to get my ear wax flushed out from jnside my ears. How much would that cost in America?

Nine years later and things haven’t changed. US health care is a living nightmare and I physically need a new season of Sherlock.

Consolidating insurance companies into a single payer system would reduce admin costs.

Though in truth you can say that about many businesses around the country, along with universities and state governments.

American hard working citizen has to pay exuberant amounts for healthcare, and loose their car, their house and become homeless.

American Criminal Kills His Entire Family Goes to Jail and Gets FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Healthcare.

So if you get cancer or need surgery kill your family, yeah your family will be gone but you will get free healthcare

You pay so much on healthcare because capitalists are greedy assh*les. A country that says one of the fundamental human rights is the right to life should not be charging $100,000. If you’re putting any tax money what so ever you should not be charged more than 1k.

Insurance companies

And now 10 years later and even worse. I love how no one ever does anything to actually fix these problems in America. Love that for us

Why did you not mention the insurancee companies in the US that make profits, and at times choices for healthcare decisions. I get that we need to negociate effectively, and by law we are no "allowed "to know the fee for services. Still can not afford them, but at least we will not be surprised.

Free in Ireland plus 4 weeks recovery

It will only change if Americans realize that their system in every aspect of life is geared to make corporations richer not to make people healthier or happier.

You din't even get around to country clubs and greens fees. Or is that just another 'theerie?

So basically, the economy is just focked up and dumb?

In other words, just more expensive for everything for no reason.

As a French, there is down side in our system tho:

- Taxation is high, 50% of your salary, no matter if you are healthy or not, you pay for everyone else.
- Hospital are full of people that shouldn't be in the hospital in the first place, making emergency response slower, some people even died because of that

- Appointment to expert doctor must be taken month in advance
- Hospitals are under funded, nurses are under paid

I still prefer our system them than being scared of one day losing my home due to hospital bills, but it's far from great. I guess that a middle ground would be preferable.

Because to make a usa guy show care is extreme humiliation for that person ?

Libs: do better, USA
Conservatives: you mean like closing the border so we aren’t paying for healthcare for 10 million + illegals?
Libs: well obviously no….

Watched this when it was posted way back in the day lol. But now I'm in a leadership in healthcare course on Emeritus through John Hopkins University online and here it is as part of the curriculum on healthcare spending in the US!!!! You guys have come a long way!

Vare you a
American ?

"Educational videos are allowed to be more than 4 minutes long." Is this an actual rule? Does that mean that In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is educational?

All those reasons boil down to one - greed.

Greedy CEOs, greedy shareholders, and greedy insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Hank looks different 😢

We get way better healthcare outcomes... Assuming "we" means drug manufacturers/investors and we're talking about the financial health of their business

Stupid question.

John.... you were right as ti what was happening but guess what. AcA made it worse!!!! After obamacare was enacted america became a captive of the insurance companies with no choice and nowhere to go and no way to opt out. Look at health insurance profits since aca
Was passed. It skyrocketed and so did costs but the Healthcare profits also skyrocketed. You need a follow up video

This video aged like fine wine

Ok let’s hear you’re reasons 🙄

Jews

I thought it was disgusting levels of greed lol.