France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.I am totally not surprised. The US has coasted for 50+ years on the fact that we as a nation were so damn wealthy that we could subscribe to a system that is inefficient and cruel.
That time has passed. There are transactions, healthcare being one, where the classic free market simply fails.
Whether its single payer or a National Health Service (my favorite), it's clear that, to quote Pete Townshend, The Music Must Change.
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