Thread: Health Care in the USA

As you know there is a thread going on asking people outside of the USA their opinion on government sponsored or assisted health care. This thread is to give residents of the USA a chance to speak their mind if they have anything to say.

From my point of view the fact that the USA is only country in the industrialized world that does not have a government health care system is scandalous. In infant mortality per capita we are 33rd in the world and behind Cuba.

The pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and some segments of the medical field are for profit ventures with the bottom line more important than providing adequate health care to all USA citizens.

I doubt if we will see a health care bill get through the congress and signed into law. The opposing forces are spending millions per day to politic against it. Meanwhile if you get become seriously ill in this country chances are you'll be bankrupt and lose all you've got if you're the average working stiff. Not a pretty picture.

It appears that other industrialized countries are doing just fine with a healthier longer living population due to their health care systems and we spend 2 1/2 times more than they do.