Us Healthcare - What S Wrong With It?
Posted on June 23, 2009 by Lauren
We spend 2-3 times as much on our healthcare as most of the countries that now have socialized medicine . Yet, every country with socialized medicine has much better overall health statistics. As a matter fact, we are hovering around 32nd in the world. Even some third world countries are ahead of us. How can this be. The richest country in the world, spending more than any other country, yet the health is one of the worst. What s wrong. How have we come to this state of affairs. There are a variety of reasons. Let s look at some of these, and look at the alternate answer: 1. There s a lot of talk about 40-50 million uninsured people in the US. Uninsured doesn t mean that they aren t taken care of. No Emergency Room can turn down anyone who comes for treatment . Although many hospitals try to shift poor people to county or state facilities for profits sake. There s also Medicaid for the very poor. But, that still leaves the great majority of uninsured swinging in the wind. They make just a little too much money to qualify for Medicaid, or the state they live in has run out of money and facilities. Under the Bush Administration, the cuts in...