You and Mitt Romney keep missing the entire point. The point is that a very large chunk of the exorbitant health care costs in the US are caused by an out-of-control for-profit system.
You must be in favor of putting more money into Parsons projects in Iraq. Instead of FIXING the PROBLEM, you're just throwing more money at it until it finally breaks down entirely.
What kind of good business is that? This is the problem:
1. Insurers, simply middlemen whose job it is to charge ever higher premiums (96% increase in premiums under Bush) and deny care. That is THEIR PURPOSE. Their purpose is not to spread risk, it is to DENY CARE whenever possible in order to achieve their stated goal: increase profits.
If you don't think this is true then you really don't understand capitalism.
2. AMA, also into the denial of care by restricting the number of medical schools and, therefore, the number of practitioners and by lobbying to keep out foreign physicians.
3. Drug companies who, instead of looking for CURES, look for expensive, ongoing, limitless treatment of permanent chronic diseases. They won't look for antibiotics but they will look for another treatment for ED.
4. Politicos who get scads of money from the industry.
5. The food industry which, along with the government, foists crappola on the AmericanPublic in the form of highly processed foods, high fructose corn syrup and other junk which leads to chronic conditions.
6. The AmericanPublic, especially people LIKE YOU who buy the pablum and unsubstantiated claims from the above. Instead of looking at the actual problem, you're just bolstering the for-profit opinions of the above.
Americans are UNHEALTHY and instead of investing in HEALTH and HEALTH CARE, all we're doing is pouring an unbelievable amount of money into a black hole of profit. The result is that Americans are UNHEALTHY even though we pay TWICE what others pay.
For a supposed capitalist, you're supporting a lousy ROI. |
