It ought to come as no shock to common AB readers that the US for-profit healthcare system is a catastrophe for everybody besides the executives and stock-holders. Right here’s one more affirmation:
“A report out Thursday exhibits that the US’ for-profit healthcare system nonetheless ranks useless final amongst peer nations on key metrics, together with entry to care and well being outcomes resembling life expectancy at start.
“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.”
Individuals pay ca. twice as a lot as different industrialized nations, have extra uninsured residents and have essentially the most avoidable deaths. And but, Medicare Benefit, which is a rip-off for taxpayers *and* for policy-holders, now covers greater than half of the Medicare-eligible inhabitants.
What do the presidential candidates must say about this? Trump has “the concepts of a plan.” Harris helps each the ACA and personal healthcare choices. And VP candidate Vance needs to roll again protections for individuals with pre-existing circumstances (previously often called medical histories).
For-Revenue US Healthcare System – As soon as Once more – Ranks Useless Final Amongst Its Friends, Knowledgeable Remark, (juancole.com)
