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Dec. 11, 2024

Secular Talk

A Deadly Healthcare System

Despite a modest reduction in the number of uninsured Americans from 47 million to approximately 30 million following passage of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), the current U.S. healthcare system continues not only to be corrupt and dysfunctional but deadly. That's the inescapable conclusion that arises from simple but ghastly arithmetic.

The findings set forth in a 2009 Harvard medical study were deeply troubling. Nearly 45,000 Americans die each year simply because they can't afford to purchase health insurance. Thanks to ObamaCare's modest (17 million) expansion of coverage, the annual number for whom poverty imposes a healthcare system death sentence has been reduced to 28,710.

Veterans, especially those of us who served in Vietnam, still mourn the 58,000 American lives lost during that 12-year war. Yet, that number pales in comparison to the 344,520 Americans who will die from lack of coverage over the next 12 years under the very system that Mrs. Clinton seeks to defend. (Under the GOP "free market" system 540,000 would die over the next 12 years for lack of coverage).

But the uninsured are not the only ones who die as a result of our corrupt and dysfunctional healthcare system -- healthcare delivery that systemically places a higher value on the obscene profits of the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries than the health and lives of our citizenry.

Readers can better appreciate the dynamics of those twisted priorities by watching Michael Moore's Sicko, which is available free online. Those dynamics, as revealed by the sworn Congressional testimony of Dr. Linda Peeno, underscore why America should have no more use for health insurance companies than an honest business owner would have for a Mafia protection racket.

We really shouldn't have to "debate" the need to replace ObamaCare with a single-payer system that treats healthcare as a basic human right. What passes for a healthcare system in these United States is so corrupt, dysfunctional and deadly that it amounts to an obscenity.

The real debate we should be engaged in is whether we should adopt a single-payer system based on those found in Canada and other single-payer countries or opt for a government-owned and operated national healthcare system modeled on that which U.K. has so successfully applied since 1948? Should we utilize a single-payer system to bargain with privately held pharmaceutical companies? Or is the sanctity of human life such that we should remove the profit motive altogether by nationalizing the pharmaceutical industry?

https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare-issues/single-payer

Original: https://youtu.be/YSpRri9iquo

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