US healthcare system is a global liability. Still Repubs call any changes ’socialism’
The Republican party had 8 years to make substantial changes to the US healthcare system, and they only added Medicare prescription changes (that screwed the elderly).
Now the Business Roundtable, which represents CEOs of major companies, says:
America’s health care system has become a liability in a global economy.
Americans spend $1,928 PER PERSON on health care in 2006, at least 2 and a 1/2 TIMES more per person than any other advanced country…
What happens if you factor in health? If you say, well, are Americans healthier for that extra cost?
The US would start 23 yards behind its closest competitors, because of health care that costs too much and delivers too little.
Its a no-brainer.
Insurance-for-profit has destroyed the doctor-patient sovereignty. It has coldly covered only the healthy, and the employed.
Health care should be a right, within a democracy.
When we know what makes people healthy (diet, exercise), prescription drug companies should not be our policymakers. They have billions to spend on lobbyists, to protect their profit-making.
Healthcare should be about HEALTHCARE, not profits.
Not surprisingly, but sadly, the CEOs of the Business Roundtable believe health care for U.S. workers and their families should stay in private hands, with a government-funded safety net for low-income people.
One thing the report does not do is endorse the same solution that countries like Canada have adopted: a government-run health care system. But as more American companies face global competition, the “value gap” is being felt by more CEOs — and their hard pressed workers. Keeping health care attached to employment seems foolish.
US healthcare in private hands? Um, NO.
How’s that gone for you the last 8 years?
How bloody is your forehead banging against the profit for insurers’/drug manufacturers’ wall in an effort to get good, reasonably priced care?
Time to be democratic and have health care for all, not related to the imposition of cost on employers.
How can something be a “right” if it requires action from someone else? Doesn’t that make people slaves to your rights?