The healthcare system

This week we are tackling one of the worst, dehumanizing, systems in the word, the United States health care system. The U.S is the only country in the western world without free universal health care access. Close to 44 million people in the U.S. lack health insurance and many more are under insured or unreliably insured. We have more than enough money to support and provide free universal health care to all Americans but most of the money is not equally distributed. Most of our health care dollars are spent on administrative cost, pharmaceuticals, and medical technologies. They fail to provide the U.S people with prenatal care that will save lives, grant longer and healthier lives, and will stop the overcrowding of emergency rooms. Emergency rooms should not be used as a source of primary care. Another problem is the lack of care that people receive, people are forced out of hospitals and put on a taxi, dropped off on skid row only because they can't afford to pay their hospital bill. When did our nation become so dark that it won't care for those in need? millions of people like myself live with fear of not getting severely sick because then, how will we pay for it? I would have to leave to Mexico to get top notch health care and pharmaceuticals that are not overpriced. Why is it that the terrorist that are detained in Guantanamo bay, Cuba are receiving better health care than the American people? There is something morally wrong and backward about this. I know that there is still much that i need to learn about our health care system and that i don't know the answers to all the questions but this is my frustration thus far. I did learn much about the health care system watching a documentary called "Sicko" by Michael Moore, he has brilliantly shun a light on our health care system's evils. I recommend that everyone watch this movie, especially is you plan to work in health care.

Here's the trailer:


shalom,
Eve