The
health care system in the
Yet we
spend more than twice per capita than
the average spent by industrialized nations. Over 20,000 Americans die each
year because they can't afford health care.
Seven hundred thousand Americans go bankrupt every year because of medical
bills. We have significant racial inequality, with Blacks and Hispanics less
likely to get treatment for serious disease, more likely to die from
illness.
Other
developed nations have inherent incentives to provide preventive care. Medical providers are paid to keep people
healthy, not just provide tests for and procedures for sick people. In the
Average
persons in other industrialized nations access their doctors more frequently,
with medical outcomes far superior. "Among
nineteen wealthy countries, the
The
Democrats and Republicans alike have caved to the corrupt
influence of huge sums of money spent by medical insurance and pharmaceutical
industries, depriving Americans of coverage-for-all. Congress and the Obama
administration worked out a deplorable health care bill that perpetuates the perverse
stranglehold for-profit that insurance companies hold; maintains the most
expensive, inefficient health care system in the world, and will still leave 23
million people without any basic health care coverage. In essence, this was done through bribery and
politics-as-usual.
This is not just a political issue,
but moral one . No
We need leadership not bought and paid
for by insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
We need people behind that leadership that says, "Enough insanity, no
more!" Together we can bring about a
just, less costly, more efficient health care system with far better outcomes. Rocky
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