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"In the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, Americans
are wondering out loud why we’re getting ripped off by giant insurance
companies when every other developed country in the world has healthcare as a
right and pays an average of about half of what we do — and gets better
outcomes.
As I point out in
The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness
Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich, and brought up with Joy Reid on
her program last week, America is:
— The only developed country in the world that doesn’t recognize healthcare as
a human right,
— The only country with more than two-thirds of its population lacking access
to affordable healthcare and a half-million families facing bankruptcy every
year because somebody got sick,
— The only country in the developed world where over 40% of the population
carries $220 billion in medical debt,
— And the only country in the developed world that has, since its founding,
enslaved and then legally oppressed and disenfranchised a large minority of its
population because of their race.
These things, along with UnitedHealth’s $370
billion in revenue and $32
billion in profit, are connected."
Via Kevin O'Brien.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
