The U.S. healthcare system stands apart from those of other high-income nations. While nearly all other developed countries utilize some form of universal healthcare to ensure every citizen has coverage, the U.S. relies on a complex, fragmented hybrid system dominated by private, employer-sponsored insurance alongside targeted public programs.
Despite spending nearly twice as much per capita on healthcare as the average wealthy nation, the U.S. frequently sees lower life expectancy and higher rates of chronic illness compared to its peers.
Why is the US health care system the worst in the first world nations? Because it is profit making and the primary incentives for the system is to make a profit not serve the health needs of Americans.
Why is the system set up this way to maximize profit rather than to provide service? Because the health care corporations spend inordinate sums of money on lobbying and campaign donations to legislators and government executives who support their corporate interests rather than the interests of the people they represent and supposedly are working for.
The primary social policy undermining the US healthcare system is the Citizens United ruling of the US Supreme Court which claims that corporations are persons who have free speech and therefore can spend any amount of money they choose to sponsor and support elected officials at all levels of government.
If you want to change the health care system in the US to better serve people, elect legislators and executive officials who want what’s best for their constituents and not the corporations. We need politicians who support people not profit.
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