Healthcare in the USA--alive and well

According to Sean Hannity, the US Healthcare System is the best in the world, providing services to all regardless of their ability to pay.

Fact is, the United States ranks poorly relative to other industrialized nations in health care despite having the best trained health care providers and the best medical infrastructure of any industrialized nation. Healthcare for the poor is different than healthcare for those who can pay. Healthcare in the United States is a for-profit business that is managed by physicians, pharmaceutical companies and health benefit providers--all of whom are more interested in their bottom line than they are in you.

Managed care is not the answer. Health care costs in the United States grew more in the United States under managed care in 1990 to 1996 than any other industrialized nation with single payer universal health care The quality of health care in the US has deteriorated under managed care. Access problems have increased. The number of uninsured has dramatically increased (increase of 10 million to 43.4 million from 1989 to 1996, increase of 2.4% from 1989 to 1996- 16% in 1996 and increasing each year).

The reason we don't have universal healthcare in the United States is that physicians, pharmaceutical companies and health benefit providers, who determined which citizen will receive which kind of care, don't want you to have it. It interferes with their bottom lines.

Sean Hannity believes that universal healthcare will destroy our already excellent and equal system and will level our economy. If you have a managed care program, you already know that you have no guarantee that you will receive a service, you have no right to choose your physician or hospital and you will be forced to wait for an approval, and sometimes that wait is endless. So, even if a universal healthcare system is introduced into the US, what would change? If you can pay cash, you too can partake of the wonderful US healthcare system--ask any wealthy person from Canada or the United States.