This is what too many of us have come to.
The Kansas City Star reports today that there will be a free health care clinic right here in our own little cowtown. It is to be a two day event at Bartle Hall December 9 and 10.
As I said, this is what health care has come to here in the US.
The richest country in the world has the most expensive--and least available--health care system in the world.
These free health care fairs have been done in the Appalachians, the West Coast (LA), the East Coast (West Virginia) and elsewhere. For too many of us, our insurance and insurance companies have priced us out of having good, sound health care.
It's undeniable but people and corporations deny it, regardless.
It's sad.
It's pathetic.
Maddening.
Did you know that the US is ranked 37th, internationally, when it comes to mortality rates?
Yeah, we are.
We are BEHIND Costa Rica on this.
Costa freakin' Rica, people.
Think we have the best health care system in the world?
Think again.
And did you see yesterday in the media that we are ranked number 3, again internationally, in terms of obesity rates?
I'm not saying that's anyone's fault but our own, individually, but it adds up to a really ugly health care picture.
If one more right-wing, closed-minded, uniformed, jingoistic chucklehead--family, friend, whatever--claims we don't need health care reform, I may well go apeshit on 'em.
Link: http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/1597536.html
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I wholeheartedly agree.
I just wish we would take the focus off making everyone get insurance, and put it towards providing basic care for free (annual exams, vaccinations, etc.), and mandating affordable insurance for emergencies, surgeries, or any other unforseen medical issues that may arise. Which includes having children. If you make the decision to have a child, then you should pay for it!
Agreed on that, too.
Instead of doing what should have happened, and that is making the single-payer happen (there are 1300 individual insurance companies in the country, each w/ their own form--if the gov't mandated one form, we'd save an estimated $350 million per year, enough to pay for the health care reform we need) and the public option (the way the rest of the world successfully manages health care), we're requiring people sign up for insurance, instead.
It's insane.
Clearly, if you can't afford health care insurance, you just can't afford it. Requiring you to get it doesn't mean you suddenly have the money to get it, as we all know.
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