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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
To be fair - although this is true - it's almost always for "experimental" treatment programs that are not yet fully proven, and it's more to do with the fact that high coverage US health insurance will often cover these treatments. private British healthcare plans probably WOULD cover experimental treatments, were they available in the UK, but it's simply not cost effective for the companies running these trials to do so in a country that doesn't have high private insurance levels to pay for it. generally these treatments do (eventually) make their way into standard healthcare once they have been fully proven.
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exactly, so if it wasn't for Americas system, how many of these treatments would never be discovered? It's easy to criticize America's healthcare system, but the truth is that the whole world benefits from it.
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