[HN Gopher] America: A healthy or healthcare economy? The sickne...
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       America: A healthy or healthcare economy? The sickness at the heart
       of US GDP
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-06-20 17:52 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | keeganjw wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/nR7xb
        
       | stuckinhell wrote:
       | Perhaps a fake economy ?
        
       | taxicabjesus wrote:
       | I decided, circa 2012, that healthcare was a make-work program
       | for us taxi drivers. Sometimes transportation providers would
       | make vastly more taking people to their appointments than the
       | provider would receive for the checkup or the group counseling
       | session. A good voucher fare for us was $50+ ($100+ round trip).
       | I couldn't imagine AHCCCS (Arizona Medicaid) paying more than $40
       | for a group counseling session. Medicaid probably paid $40-50 for
       | a medical followup appointment.
       | 
       | My theory behind this observation was that as the U.S. gradually
       | de-industrialized post-NAFTA and post-WTO, our politicians
       | leaders used healthcare as a source of jobs that couldn't be
       | outsourced to Mexico or Asia.
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       | From my on-the-ground perspective, an important consideration in
       | the US' poor health outcomes is addiction.
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39071316
        
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