Reply #66: Our "health care" system is different from other countries.

[mwb970]

In other countries (every other Western country), the purpose of the health care system is to care for the health of its citizens. In America, the purpose of our "health care" system is to ensure large and growing profits for insurance companies and other corporations. This makes a huge difference in the results! Namely, people in other countries (every other Western country) pay less than we do for health care and get better results. (America was last of 19 in a recent preventable morbidity study; France was first.)

Fortunately for the corporations, Americans are not inclined to make a fuss over hard-to-understand problems like this.