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Mighty pricey, this Prostate Cancer stuff.
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I hope this isn't political (we all dislike excessive bureaucracy, right? 🙂) but I think where @xahnegrey40 hit the nail on the head was the huge administrative overhead in the U.S. healthcare system, both inside and outside the hospitals. A lot of people (however well intentioned) are pushing virtual paper to each-other to bill mainly for the cost of pushing virtual paper to each-other.
The price of surgery covers not only the salaries of the doctors, nurses, researchers, cleaners, caterers, pharmacists, etc, but the salaries of a surprisingly large number of people who've never had contact with patients. And it's hard to change, because about 20 million Americans rely on the current system for their paycheques — major reform has the potential to throw the U.S. economy into chaos. 😕
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I think what you say is substantially correct.
Canada, of course, has what's described as a "single payer health care system" (well, per province), and the US also does have such a system as well, nation-wide, but just for older folks who qualify for medicare. This is why a "Medicare for All " system in the US could make a great deal of sense. That would probably do away with much of the bureaucratic, etc needless layers of duplication and complication. I think Medicare has a greater amount of clout dealing with pharmaceutical companies, certainly, and probably other entities as well, in regards to their pricing.