Do Medical Costs Make You Sick?

Yes, the US can insure everyone and it's a scandal that it doesn't.

Apart from the costly work-arounds that doctors use to get drugs to patients (like old people) who can't pay for them (the doctors give out the great number of samples that salesman give them .. and people bring back left-over drugs), three things stand out as good reasons for providing universal health care:

1. We here in Canada have UHC.

2. Despite our GDP per capita being lower than the US', we live three-odd years longer than Americans on average, and this in a rouger climate.

3. We spend 20% less per capita than people in the US AND every one of us is covered.

Add to that the fact that we don't worry about not getting proper health care if we don't have a good enough job or get laid off, etc. Our psychological burden is MUCH lighter because of this.

Wise up, Amercians! Until a couple of years ago I held out against putting your health so-called system. But then I talked to a US doctor and that all changed ...