Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.
Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.
America doesn't have health insurance.
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.