Re: Americans Spend More For Health Care, Get Less

On Jun 24, 6:02�am, Christopher Helms <Chrishelms...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jun 24, 7:07�am, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

From Reuters, 6/23/10:http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65M0SU20100623?type=domesticNews

(Reuters) -

Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed
countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and
have the least equitable system, according to a report released on
Wednesday.

The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries --
Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the
Commonwealth Fund report found.

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Harry


Americans also work longer hours and get fewer benefits and less
vacation time than anyone else in the industrialized world. It's a
reflection of our current greed based ethos and decades of Republican
success at tricking working people into opposing their own interests
by voting for conservative Trickle Up Economic policies that screw
working people six ways to sunday. Capitalism was once a system that
provided opportunities, high living standards and prosperity for
anyone willing to work for them, but those days are gone. Today you
don't work to get ahead. You bust your ass to stay where you are while
the radio at work that is constantly on is flooded with right wingers
telling you that you're a lazy, greedy, selfish, America wrecking
bastard because you belong to a union, but Rush Limbaugh is a
persecuted innocent because he has to pay taxes. Nowadays, maintaining
the appearance of Capitalism and the myth that we are a capitalist
country is the preferred way that corporate sponges like to present
themselves as they charge more and more and more while providing less
and less and less. Capitalism has burned itself out and is now
devouring itself through incessant public funding, cost cutting,
service reductions, mergers, outsourcing and benefit cuts. There is
little or no free market competition and every major industry features
a small number of politically connected, subsidy sucking, sector
stomping, shrink vending corporate giants you can count on one hand
and have fingers left over, but that's not capitalism. That's what the
Sherman Anti Trust Act was supposed to prevent.