http://root-fu.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] root-fu.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2009-08-14 09:55 am (UTC)

I don't see a problem, there. Much of the time, the only way Americans seem able to turn a profit is to screw one another over. General Motors does it, oil companies do it, why shouldn't health care do it, too?

Besides, its not necessarily an exclusive condition due to profiteering -- although profiteering does play a big part. America has by far the most lawyers -- maybe as much as 70% of all the lawyers in the world. It doesn't take a mega sized leap of imagination to theorize that an abysmally high number of employed lawyers results in an abysmally high number of lawsuits which drives health care prices in a vaguely upwards direction.

Yes, health care might be as expensive in these other countries IF they had as many lawyers as we do. It doesn't necessarily imply health care suffers from systemic failure in a way which implies extraordinarily dysfunction.

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