> Most Americans have insurance. You can't ignore real data. Are you from the US?
If you're judging the quality of healthcare based on whether people from the US have insurance or do not have insurance it shows that you're fundamentally failing to understand the type of problem the article is discussing, which in this case is specifically that insurance is broken and insurance companies will refuse to pay for treatment even when people have insurance. The people having Cigna refuse to pay for medical treatments as in the article obviously have insurance or they wouldn't be dealing with Cigna in the first place, so I'm not sure how "real data" on the percentage of americans who are insured could possibly refute that.
> Compared to the rest of the world? It is not.
Yes, US healthcare providers are capable of providing very good care. However, it doesn't matter if the US healthcare providers theoretically provide the best treatment in the world if that treatment is now so expensive and the insurance system is now so broken that a huge percentage of the people can't afford medical treatment even with health insurance (e.g. most americans on bronze/silver health insurance plans).
I think this is something that gets missed in a lot of statistics.
The reality is that once you factor in the insurance system, and not just healthcare providers, the US healthcare system does not look so great anymore for average americans.
If you're judging the quality of healthcare based on whether people from the US have insurance or do not have insurance it shows that you're fundamentally failing to understand the type of problem the article is discussing, which in this case is specifically that insurance is broken and insurance companies will refuse to pay for treatment even when people have insurance. The people having Cigna refuse to pay for medical treatments as in the article obviously have insurance or they wouldn't be dealing with Cigna in the first place, so I'm not sure how "real data" on the percentage of americans who are insured could possibly refute that.
> Compared to the rest of the world? It is not.
Yes, US healthcare providers are capable of providing very good care. However, it doesn't matter if the US healthcare providers theoretically provide the best treatment in the world if that treatment is now so expensive and the insurance system is now so broken that a huge percentage of the people can't afford medical treatment even with health insurance (e.g. most americans on bronze/silver health insurance plans).
I think this is something that gets missed in a lot of statistics.
The reality is that once you factor in the insurance system, and not just healthcare providers, the US healthcare system does not look so great anymore for average americans.