Because of my recent diagnosis I am spending more time taking looks at this country’s healthcare system. We are told by some pundits that the US has the best healthcare in the world….I dispute that claim….as someone that is getting up there in age I have need of the system to see that I get older and I am not impressed.
I have been bitching about the healthcare in this country for decades and recently some in the Congress have tried to push through a package they call Medicare For All…..of course I had to write about it in 2019….
https://lobotero.com/2019/03/04/medicare-for-all/ Now back to the lie that we have the best healthcare in the world…..
A report out Thursday shows that the United States’ for-profit healthcare system still ranks dead last among peer nations on key metrics, including access to care and health outcomes such as life expectancy at birth. The new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund is the latest indictment of a corporate-dominated system that leaves tens of millions of people uninsured or underinsured and unable to afford life-saving medications without rationing doses or going into debt. “Despite spending a lot on healthcare, the United States is not meeting one of the principal obligations of a nation: to protect the health and welfare of its residents,” the report states. “Most of the countries we compared are providing this protection, even though each can learn a good deal from its peers. The U.S., in failing this ultimate test of a successful nation, remains an outlier.” People in the U.S., which spends roughly twice as much per capita on healthcare as other rich nations, “live the shortest lives and have the most avoidable deaths,” Commonwealth noted, pointing to frequent “denials of services by insurance companies” and other systematic defects of the American system, including massive administrative costs. Meanwhile, insurance giants and pharmaceutical companies are raking in huge profits, benefiting in particular from the growing privatization of Medicare. More than half of the Medicare-eligible population in the U.S. is currently on a privately run Medicare Advantage plan. “Our private, profit-driven system means that we are paying more for less,” progressive activist Jonathan Cohn wrote in response to the Commonwealth report.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-healthcare-system This failure on the system can be blamed on the bribes paid to Congress to see that nothing changes and the profits just keep rolling in and the officials have their hands out for the big pay offs. This system sucks. That is the best description I can give. I Read, I Write, You Know “cognito ergo me agitare”