We Need Healthcare Reform Not Just A New Way To Pay For It
In the United States we spend more, per capita on healthcare than any other country in the world. We spent $7,421 per capita as compared to about $3,500 in countries with universal national healthcare systems such as France and Germany. We don't receive better care in the US than the French or Germans; we just pay a lot more for it. In fact, according to the latest data, we spent $2.2 trillion in 2007 on healthcare, or 16.2% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Even more worrisome is that expenditures continue to rise at an alarming rate of 6% annually.
Here's a radical idea: Why don't we fix the current system before the administration throws another $634 billion federal dollars into this sinkhole? We appear to be focused… Continue reading | 3 Comments