Reply #52: Even people with money often get crappy health care in the U.S. [View All]

...very expensive crappy health care.

A person going to a free clinic in the United States can have a better outcome for an identical medical complaint than a billionaire with the best insurance. There are many reasons for this, but one might be that some of doctors catering to the wealthy are more interested in the prestige and money than the patient's actual health. (This can be a conscious or subconscious attitude.) These doctors might also put unwarranted faith in highly advertised and expensive pharmaceuticals and procedures that are more dangerous and less effective than the inexpensive generic drugs and procedures a free clinic doctor might use.

It is a total fabrication that the "United Sates has the best health care system in the world," even when you disregard all the patients who have no health insurance. The only thing you can really say about the health care system in the United States is that it is the most expensive, and that the overall results we get from that money are mediocre compared to several nations that spend far less on health care than we do.