Comment by machomaster 2 days ago
> extremely high quality health insurance in a western country
(Sigh...) Let's put some facts.
Infant mortality and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) are one of best simple indicators of the quality of healthcare. USA's mortality is x3 (!!!) of the countries on top. This puts USA around place 50 in the world, worse than Russia...
No. The original claim was "all the systems that subsidize health care for those less well off don't apply because you're wealthy. So you are bearing the full cost of extremely high quality health insurance in a western country.":
1. The quality is high.
2. The OP pays the full price.
1 is incorrect. The OP is paying a lot, but is getting the same subpar quality healthcare as everyone else. He differs with people without money in only one thing: the latter don't get the full access to the subpar health system. The system itself is the same and its general quality is well indicated by the core metric of the infant mortality.
The health system is subpar and there is absolutely no reason why such a system should cost that much.
Health care could be more evenly distributed, of course, but the health care that OP is receiving is definitely very high quality. General statistics about the entire population cannot speak to that.