[limpbizkitfan]

Reporting differences don’t fix the fact that they also claim that 80% of these deaths are preventable.

The US healthcare system is always being designed around profit requirements and care constraints, and not vice versa. Nobody here (save for Medicare) really knows what the proper reimbursement is for care, and we waste needless amounts of time and money on quackery (naturopaths, supplements, chiropractic) instead. The reason why we open more “cancer centers” rather than adequate emergency or trauma care is because these hospital systems want to sell a Veblen good to wealthy people with cancer. There’s hope though, if we erase the weird private insurance industry we might start seeing prices and care reflect needs vs. means.