re: Spinoff: The Commonwealth Fund Healthcare 2017 rankings. US basically ranked last

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and the regulation that would be necessary to remove that motive

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This is the other part of the puzzle that I think is forgotten

The regulations on healthcare in this country are insane. All I have is an anecdotal story that I'm not sure is representative of all of Europe, but when a family member went into a European hospital for IV antibiotics the antibiotics came in an unmarked normal saline bag. It just had the name of the antibiotics scribbled in sharpie on the side of a blank bag.

Do you know what we need to get a bag of antibiotics in this country? Hospital pharmacies to meet insane practice standards, about 3 nurses to double and triple check it, precise EMR documentation, scan a wrist band, scan the medicine, etc.

Screw up one of those things and you are looking at serious litigation.

All these extra measures cost money, in manpower and technology. This is another reason why we can't possibly emulate the small European countries