Current Health Care System
Causes Millions to Go Bankrupt and Uninsured
By M. Gib
More than 46 million Americans go uninsured each day.
The United States spends more on health care per an individual than any other country.
The United States is the only developed nation without a universal health care program.The United States is the only developed nation without universal health care coverage, and the current state of affairs is bankrupting millions. In 2001, half of all bankruptcy filings were related to medical issues. From 1981 to 2001, the number of medically-related bankruptcy filings increased 2300 percent. With numbers like that, there is little doubt that the current situation of health care in America is killing Americans. In fact, while the United States spends more on health care per an individual than any other nation, the World Health Organization reports that the United States only ranks 28th for life expectancy and 37th for mortality of children under the age of 5. For immunizations, the United States ranks 67th – Botswana is 66th.
Federally funded universal healthcare: 10 more good reasons
The top 10 reasons why universal healthcare is America’s future, including high comparative costs, overall poor health of our nation in comparison to other industrialized countries, the fact that our politicians enjoy taxpayer-funded healthcare even as they tell us, their benefactors, that we wouldn’t like it, and the fact that every industrialized nation in the world except the U.S. enjoys a universal healthcare system, were presented last time. And now, the next 10 reasons:
In America, the cost of healthcare is a large portion of the cost of goods produced here. For example, General Motors estimated that $1,525 of every car they built was needed for employee healthcare costs. This is a cost burden GM’s competitors do not bear.
Healthcare costs are now considered by most CEOs to be the single largest threat to the U.S. economy in today’s global competitive market.
Employers often avoid hiring full-time workers because they cannot bear the burden of the employees’ healthcare costs (which averaged $9,600 per worker in 2008). Universal healthcare means leveling the hiring playing field, strengthening small businesses, and reducing joblessness.
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