"I wish to be left alone (unregulated)," said Scrooge, aka American health insurance corporations. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people, aka the American unemployed, merry. I help to support the establishments, private prisons, insurance corporations, Walmart, etc. I have mentioned - they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.""Many can't go there; and many would rather die," said the gentleman in reply.
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge aka American health insurance corporations, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population aka the middle class."
Healthcare and Insurance. Two words that should never be intertwined. The United States is the only country in the world that has an industry in place that makes a profit from people being sick. In 2010 The Commonwealth Fund published a report that compares the US to six other countries. We rank dead last."Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance, relative to other countries. This report—an update to three earlier editions—includes data from seven countries and incorporates patients' and physicians' survey results on care experiences and ratings on dimensions of care. Compared with six other nations—Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—the U.S. health care system ranks last or next-to-last on five dimensions of a high performance health system: quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives." the introduction to the overview of the report states.
It is with facts like these that I am truly ashamed of the American greed. Nuff said.
