We’ve simply celebrated Martin Luther King’s birthday. I believe that he was among the many biggest of all People.
In 1966, he spoke about injustice in well being care and known as it essentially the most surprising and inhuman of all inequalities. There may be a lot proof that the care of the poor is inferior to the care of the rich and that the care of individuals of colour is inferior to the care of whites. The injustices are nonetheless there and are getting worse.
Shouldn’t well being care be obtainable and inexpensive for all?
Well being care is unaffordable for a lot of. Out-of-pocket prices and medical debt are skyrocketing. Major care physicians are in brief provide, and it’s troublesome to seek out one. Docs are burning out. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed. Big companies (United Healthcare, Aetna, et al) make billions of {dollars} of revenue from our sicknesses. Our tax {dollars} subsidize these companies.
Hospitals are consolidating or closing. Drug corporations are ripping us off. We spend twice as a lot on well being care as different nations and our outcomes should not pretty much as good. We’re paying extra for medical insurance and getting much less for our cash than we have been just a few years in the past.
Many medical doctors, hospitals and politicians go merrily on their method as if nothing is mistaken. It does not must be this manner.
It’s apparent that our system wants an overhaul. It’s actually fairly easy. Negotiate with the drug corporations. Construct up major care. Cease all makes an attempt to denationalise Medicare. Throw out the profit-oriented companies and substitute them with a single-payer with far much less administrative overhead. It is known as Improved Medicare-for-All. Simplified (and subsequently higher) well being take care of much less.
G. Richard Dundas, M.D.
Bennington
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