The healthcare system in America is in as bad shape as General Motors is when compared to Toyota.In the USA we spend vastly more on healthcare than any other country. But the results we get are poor. The life expectancy is lower in America than in England and the infant mortality is higher. Yet in America we spend more than twice the amount per person on healthcare they do in the UK.
Of the almost 50 million people in America who are excluded from the healthcare system roughly 10% are White, 15% are Hispanics, and 20% are Blacks.
I am becoming increasing convinced that the main opposition to major reform of the American healthcare system is coming from white supremacists. They may think of themselves as Republicans, but I would call them dishonest, ignorant, bigoted racists.
I got the chart on the right from the BBC news website and the one on the left from one of the largest news organizations in Germany Der Spiegel. Click on either of them and they will enlarge.
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