Noteworthy Article on the American Health System
This is one of the best articles I’ve read on the subject of American health care and medical insurance. It pretty much explains that the system is so bad that it is well beyond partisan bickering. Here’s a taste.
We all instantly recognize that it would be a disaster if we collectively decided that the way all cars should be purchased would be by having a job with a company that will provide you a car (with a tax break, and if you lose your job, you lose your car), and an insurer that will pay for gas and oil. Should you not be able to get a car that way, the government will buy you a car. We can easily imagine that, because the choices in the car sector would no longer be made by individual consumers but by powerful entities—the government, large companies, insurers—almost every car would be a hideous, hideously expensive, comically ill-designed clunker akin to the ones that became the butt of “Lada” jokes in the Soviet Union. Or consider what would happen if housing were provided the way we “provide” health care; the mere thought should send chills down one’s spine. But whenever we talk about health care, that part of our brain seemingly shuts off, and these simple truths become about as intelligible as an angry Klingon warrior.
+1 for Klingon warrior reference, but seriously, if you care about the shambles our medical system has become, read this article.
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