Friday, September 4

A different sort of health-care system

India's is more market oriented.

Of course, their average life expectancy is a full decade and some change below America's. But this would seem to be a consequence of the country's relative poverty and poor sanitation, not an inferior health-care model.

An interesting thought from the piece:
There's an unstated assumption that the institutions that have grown up around the American and European medical systems are a cause of our higher standard of living. But what if they're a product of that wealth: vast bureaucracies that no nation needs but only the richest can afford?

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