No, with the American health system, you do get what you pay for (i.e. more money ⇒ access to better medicine); but you don’t necessarily pay (the right amount) for what you get (i.e. !(worse medicine ⇒ costs less)).
Which is to say: standard-of-care treatments can cost far too much relative to other countries; but also, if you’re willing to throw millions of dollars at private clinics, you can opt your own way into experimental treatments that don’t exist anywhere else in the world.
Which is to say: standard-of-care treatments can cost far too much relative to other countries; but also, if you’re willing to throw millions of dollars at private clinics, you can opt your own way into experimental treatments that don’t exist anywhere else in the world.