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The Los Angeles Times has an article today on the health care system in America.
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The way that health care is handled in the United States of America is a disgrace. 50 million people in America are uninsured, and those who do have health insurance often find that despite thinking that their insurance would cover certain expenses, in the final analysis they have to pay these expenses.
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Unfortunately this is just another example of how far America has fallen. No other advanced Western democracy in the entire world has such a shabby health care system which excludes so many people. The infant mortality rates and average age of death in the U.S.A. confirm that the American health care system has declined to what one would expect in a second rate country.
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Just like the problems with the financial markets, this decline in the American health care system can primarily be attributable to greed, lack of government regulation, and a breakdown of democracy.
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I am 59 years old, and for 20 years of my adult life I lived and worked first in Germany and later in the Netherlands. In both countries physicians do not live in gigantic palaces and drive Porsches. Honest. And the people living in both countries live longer than Americans. The death rate for young children is lower in both countries than in the U.S.A.
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It really makes me be kind of ashamed to be an American. Shocking.
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LINK: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-insure21-2008oct21,0,7460918.story
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