Rising health-care costs are enough to make you sick

[McCamy Taylor]

9. US pays twice as much per person for health results that are worse than Eastern Europe.

We are being ripped off. We are being bled dry. We are paying twice as much per person per year as any other country in the world for health care---and that includes Canada and the UK and France---and we get crappy results that would make Eastern Slovenia hang its head in shame.

Our health care system is so broken our health care system needs its own single payer health insurance. Or a bullet to the head.

Health insurance profits are only a small portion of the excess. We also lose out because we invest close to zero in prevention and pile up everything on end of life futile care. We pay way too much for drugs that the rest of the world gets cheaper---including Europe, where many of the drugs are manufactured.

If the government had an actual public health policy designed to prevent disease we could slash health care spending---but that would be like asking the Koch Brothers to advocate for mass transit. The Kochs want us to guzzle oil and the Medical Industrial Complex wants us to smoke, overeat and sit around on the couch getting fat.

During Bush ALL the federal money was going towards bioterrorism preparedness. Know how many bioterrorist attacks we have had in this country in the last decade? Know how many Americans have died of preventable diseases?