In Germany, for example, you cannot sue for malpractice unless a board of medical providers finds actual malpractice and there is a strict cap on payouts. Someone injured when all normal precautions were taken for treatment or a procedure is not malpractice: it's bad luck. In that case in Germany you are still covered because the comprehensive insurance scheme still covers you if you are unemployed or disabled. But as a consequence malpractice insurance is a tiny fraction of what it is here for both individual providers and medical groups. We need to stop using malpractice lawsuits as a substitute disability/medical insurance scheme.
Similarly drug prices are negotiated with pharmaceutical companies nationwide and the absurdly high prices paid in the US are nowhere to be found. The pharmaceutical companies still make a profit.
Every few years medical providers, the government, unions and businesses get together to hash out reimbursement costs so rational planning can take place. Health/disability insurance plans are mandatory for every employee and if you're on the dole or retired the government pays or your retirement plan pays. Everyone pays something. If you want more coverage than the mandatory minimums you can buy it.
We have multiple private insurers, the Obamacare government high-deductible insurance scams, Medicaid, Medicare, the VA and workman's compensation. This is an insane amount of bureaucracy that still does not guarantee coverage for ordinary people.
Prices for medicine and medical services in Germany are 1/8 to 1/10 the price here and outcomes largely the same or better. My cataracts are annoying but not bad enough for my medical insurance to pay to fix. So I mentioned going to Europe to get my eye lenses replaced. Even my ophthalmologist thought that was a good idea because she agreed prices here are absurd. We are simply being robbed blind.
You can’t compare an intelligent, hard working, orderly population to that of the USA. We need to fix so much then healthcare would fix itself.
And those robbers own and operate many Republican politicians...