alt Hacker NewsWhat's to stop congress from passing a blanket "most favored nation" law for VA + medicare on all pricing, inclusive of insurance rates and discounts? Seems like it would be fair and useful.
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The same thing that stops them from just joining the rest of the first world nations and giving us universal healthcare. Greed.
Trump already lowered costs of medicine by 1200%, what more do you want?
We're gonna be so rich!
>"most favored nation"
There is a weird thing Americans often do when confronted with the incredibly high price of medicine and medical care in the US of imagining that every other country is actually responsible for this (hence the "most favored" nonsense). That it's zero sum and every other country is laughing and taking Americans for a ride and underpaying, and therefore Americans have to cover the bill.
This is the angle Trump has taken in some of his incredibly ignorant and stupid screeds on this topic (as with every single position he has on anything): Get everyone else to pay more and somehow the US pays less!
This...isn't at all how it works, or what the problem is. Americans pay more because of the whole massive scam of your Medical Insurance Racket, where everything has imaginary inflated prices and an absolutely massive middle-tier of suits having nothing to do with medicine are taking their cut. This is your problem, reflected almost nowhere else on the planet, and it is domestic caused and will need to be fixed domestically. Criticizing Europe or Canada or anyone else will never, ever fix the utterly, insanely broken and profoundly stupid American system.
But it won't. It's simply incredibly how easily Americans can be fooled into voting against their own best interests, year after year.
The US Congress doesn’t pass laws anymore. Let alone fair and useful ones.