"50 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absolutely Astonish You."

[Cleita]

From the website, THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-u-s-health-care-statistics-that-will-absolutely-astonish-you/comment-page-1

The U.S. health care system has become one gigantic money making scam, and you are about to see the statistics that prove it. Today, the United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the world by far. The health insurance companies and the big pharmaceutical corporations are raking in gigantic mountains of cash and yet the quality of the health care that we receive in return is rather quite poor. People living in Puerto Rico have a greater life expectancy than we do. Residents of Cuba have a lower infant mortality rate than we do. We are the most medicated population on the planet and yet we are also one of the sickest. If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would have the 6th largest economy on the globe and yet rates of cancer, heart disease and diabetes continue to increase. The U.S. health care statistics that you are about to read below are absolutely stunning. For as much money as we shell out for health care, we should have the greatest system in the entire world. But we don't. Something has gone horribly wrong.

As you read this, there are hordes of health bureaucrats and greedy corporate fatcats that are becoming incredibly wealthy while the rest of us go broke trying to pay for our health care. In the United States today, health care bills cause more bankruptcies than anything else does. Millions of Americans are afraid to go to the hospital because they know that even a short visit would be a huge financial burden.

Sadly, our politicians in Washington D.C. continue to make the problem worse. Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation that anyone has ever come up with in the history of the United States. You could put a thousand monkeys in a room with a thousand typewriters for a thousand years and they wouldn't come up with anything as bad as Obamacare. Rather than doing something to address the abuses of the health insurance companies and the pharmaceutical corporations, Obamacare actually gives them more power. In fact, huge portions of Obamacare are virtually identical to a bill that was written by the health insurance trade association in 2009. Under Obamacare our health care costs will go up even faster and the quality of our health care will continue to go down. So please don't try to tell me that Obamacare is the solution to anything.

The health care system in the United States is so broken that it probably cannot be repaired. The entire thing needs to be dismantled and completely reinvented.

If you doubt this, just check out the stats that I have compiled below. more at link

This blogger seems to be in control of his facts. It's an interesting read especially now that it seems our Congress and Senate may bargain away our safety nets.

[MichiganVote]

1. K&R

[Cleita]

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[Peter1x9]

3. I love some of those comments...

Especially this one:
The soaring cost of care is simple. The Big Insurance have to make a profit without providing any service toward medical care, They are a mere middleman with the primary goal of turning a hefty profit for investors. Profit driven healthcare only works in 3rd world countries where human life is worth very little. The USA is the only industrialized nation that uses this inhumane and expensive model. Research is primarily funded by taxpayers or start-up biotech firms. Big Pharma merely purchases them when they make a breakthrough. Bio Research outsourcing in short. We have the most pathetic tattered patchwork healhcare system, if you can even call it that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. But profit driven health care is actually NOT that common

in third world nations either.

Costa Rica is in the Third World, so is Cuba...

[Cleita]

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[Cleita]

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