It’s a country where more than 355,000 people die every year from untreated health problems. 14% are regularly denied medical care because of an unpaid bill, often less than $100. 34 million have friends or family members who died because they could not afford medical care. Unbelievably, it also happens to be the richest country in the world. It’s the U.S. where life expectancy is the lowest of all the advanced economies of the world. Despite a $4.3 trillion price tag, the U.S. healthcare system never fails to disappoint. Unregulated and privatized, healthcare in the U.S. takes its toll on virtually every American. Who’s guarding the hen house?
Government regulators are rewarded with lucrative job offers if they look the other way and they do. It’s a system where the winners are few and handsomely rewarded and the losers are everybody else forced to make do with an industry that puts profits ahead of patients. Only those with a strong stomach should read “Profiteers vs Patients: The Two Faces of US Healthcare.”
