Well, once again, we the people have lost.

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235. The biggest savings to the Health Insurers is that there

Is no longer any real standard of care.

Here in California, nurses at major hospitals in the cities are usually per diem workers. So the first two days or so, they don't know where the medicine supply cabinet is. They don't know where all the major things they need are.

You are risking your life every time you are a patient in California. Ad tot hat how so many of the nursing aides are foreigners who don't speak any English (in clear violation of laws on the books stating that workers in hospitals who are serving the health needs of patients MUST speak English) and you can see that we Americans are paying exorbitant premiums to receive a product that is clearly quite inferior.

We pay more as a nation for health care than any other place on earth, yet still rank below 25 other nations in terms of how well our health services gives us our basic needs. If you consider that people's religious convictions now get in the way of providing health care, It really is amazing that any of us needing health care are left alive at the end of a year.