The US Private Healthcare System fails again

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

First, lose the insult

Second: the King of Saudi Arabia doesn't have much to do with ranking the healthcare system for 300 million people. Our archaic private healthcare system is the most expensive in the world, and one of the least effective.

When you go out for a steak dinner do you rank the meal by the steak you're eating or do you consider what 300 million other people are eating?

Pure and simple we have the best care money can buy!

Not everyone can afford Mortons but there's always a Denny's nearby

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

When you go out for a steak dinner do you rank the meal by the steak you're eating or do you consider what 300 million other people are eating?

Pure and simple we have the best care money can buy!

Not everyone can afford Mortons but there's always a Denny's nearby

Not everyone can afford Denny's. 40% of Americans are living in threat of poverty. We are turning into a very poor country, with a wealthy class, and a poor class - the middle class is virtually gone. Their wages have stagnated for 40 years, while the wealthy have taken a greater percentage of ownership of the money available in the country. We have the most expensive care in the world. But even if you can afford it, you won't get "the best care" as far as neonatal survival rates, life expectancy, preventive death rate, preventive medicine, and access goes. If you have a chronic condition (diabetes, kidney failure, heart trouble for example) you will probably, as your life goes on, lose access to treatment for your conditions as your insurance refuses to pay or lifetime caps are reached, and cannot afford the medication sold by private companies at expensive rates only to those that can afford paying.

That has been modified by the ACA, thank goodness, who has lowered Medicare drug costs markedly, improved preventive care access for the elderly, etc.