One of the remarkable things that emerges from all of these so-called national discussions is a mind-set in many Americans that absolutely refuses to look at the facts about our own health care system and the health care systems of other countries.
The World Health Organization ranks our overall health care system 37th in the world. There are many other statistics that show that we here in America are spending a lot more for our healthcare and receiving in return a lot less that other countries.
We are bombarded with bugaboo words like socialism, communism, government control over our lives, death-panels, that continue to distract us from an objective look at the facts and the truth of the matter.
We are a rich country economically compared to many countries, and yet we have 47 million people in this country with no health insurance whatsoever. This is a disgrace that is allowed in no other advanced nation in the world.
But in America we turn our backs on other countries’ experience, we refuse to open our minds to facts, we paint false pictures of the health systems of other countries. If we were truly wise, we would sift through the experiences of these countries and then model a system of our own, using the best of each system.
Thirty percent of our health care monies are simply swallowed up in insurance companies’s marketing, advertising, and paperwork costs, along with enormous bonuses and profits in an industry that should never allow profit to be the main incentive in the first place.
Here is a commentary from a woman who has lived and experienced health care in both America and England.
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