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I think a lot of people aren't aware how greed as reduced the previously decently run healthcare systems in a lot of places.

Germany for example had pretty decent healthcare 10 yrs ago, then a few regulations were passed and it's been doing downhill at a staggering pace.

Nowadays hospitals prefer amputations over simple treatments in diabetes cases as a pretty well known example, as it's me profitable.

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And let's not even start about their 2-speed healthcare system, where the privately insured can get immediate specialist appointments while the pleb can join the back of the queue on the 6 month waiting list. Oh, the privately insured also get access to the hospital department head, and private rooms with a second bed in case relatives need to sleep over.

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This is the big problem with healthcare in capitalism. If everything is about profit, then healthcare also becomes about profit, and hospitals will decide on treatment based on what's profitable to them, instead of what's better for the patient and for society.

There's always going to be some trade-off of course, because resources are never infinite. But preventative healthcare is a lot cheaper and better for quality of life than waiting until limbs need to be lopped off.