We argued in our previous two posts, found here, that people in the United States are less healthy than Japan, the social democracies in western Europe, Cuba, and Costa Rica despite the fact that Americans spend more than twice as much, on a per capita basis, on health care. The next piece of the puzzle [...]
A Data Based Argument for Universal Health Care in the USA: part 2
After viewing the overall effectiveness of the nation’s health care system, as seen in part one earlier today, it is now important to look at the actual money we spend on health care in the United States.
This data reveals how the profit motive of the big corporations (health care insurance providers, medical technology developers, pharmaceuticals, [...]
A Data Based Argument for Universal Health Care in the USA: part 1
Outside of health insurance corporations, political conservatives, some medical malpractice lawyers and some wealthy doctors, the mood in the country on health care is that we are in a state of crisis. There is a small but growing wave of people that are now ready to move toward free, universal, and preventive medicine based health [...]
