[cupofpython]

>total healthcare expenditure is somewhere around double that of most other first world countries

>the standard of care in America is probably second to none if you can pay for it

How sure are we that these two things are unrelated?

[throwawaylinux]

I'm not sure. I've heard people handwave about this before, but if health industry corporations and their congressmen and senators are going to argue that, it should be explained and funded and voted on explicitly, rather than the alleged massive indirect subsidies via overpriced medicare and medicaid government expenditure if they're going to claim that's somehow the way health corporations fund their cutting edge R&D and high end treatments and clinics.