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[–] Bye@lemmy.world 95 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Our taxes fund more public health dollars per capita than almost anywhere else in the world. Medicare and Medicaid spending is higher than DOD budget, and that’s before you include medical research funded by NIH and DOD or VA spending.

The issue is that our prices are out of control because of regulatory capture and downstream inability of the government to negotiate lower prices.

What we need are price controls.