16-10-2014, 04:45 AM
America is always claiming/bragging that it has the 'best healthcare system in the World' when anyone who has traveled knows many other countries, including little Cuba, in many ways have better health care systems. Yes, in some major US hospitals etc. one can find the most sophisticated machinery and surgeons, doctors; however, few now in the USA can afford this highest level of care. The entire system is built to offer lesser [or no] care to those who aren't wealthy, and there is almost zero emphasis on public health or health promotion. (the emphasis is on prolonged hospital stays, unnecessary expensive procedures and profit, profit, profit. This epidemic and other situations like it show the huge flaws in the privatized U.S. system. All the shiny bells and whistles on the machinery won't save you - good training and an ethic of care might.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass