High healthcare costs and low medical capacity made the US uniquely vulnerable to the coronavirus.
found that even women with breast cancer — a life-threatening diagnosis — would delay care because of the high deductibles on their insurance plan, even for basic services like imaging.
Hospital beds, for example, will be necessary for Covid-19 patients with more serious symptoms. America has fewer hospital beds per capita than most other countries in the developed world.A potential shortage of hospital beds is compounded by the fact that the US has higher rates of hospitalizations for chronic conditions that, with proper management, shouldn’t require the patient to go to the hospital. Those conditions include congestive heart failure, diabetes, and asthma.
And, likely as a result, Americans struggle more than people in most other places to get a same-day or next-day appointment with their doctor.Take these structural problems together with America’s slow start to testing for coronavirus, and we are far behind where we should be. In Taiwan, with its single-payer health program, every citizen has their digital medical records loaded into the same system. In the coronavirus outbreak, the country has added travel records to that online medical file, so every doctor can check whether their patients have visited an area affected by the outbreak.
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