Here in the United States, in regards to Health Care, we seem to have blinders on. There is a mindset here in too many of our people that refuses to believe we can be anything but number one, no matter what the facts and statistics show.
Our healthcare, if you can pay, is good; but the way we deliver and make that care available to our citizens is a disgrace for a country with the wealth we have.
All you have to do is look - and I mean really look - at other countries and what they are doing. Yes, they have problems, but they also have the will to care for the health of their people, and right now they are doing a much, much better job that we are, and, at the same time, spending much less to get the job done.
I was watching PBS last night - “Front Line” - and I wanted to share with you a wonderful program. Please click through “Sick Around the World” and watch this hour long program, and then please share it with others. It is a picture of how 5 other capitalist societies - the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland - deliver health care, and what the United States could learn from their successes and failures. The show highlights trips to these countries by Washington Post foreign correspondent
T. R. Reid.