To Lose or Not to Lose!

The US allows 15 percent of its population to be uninsured merely because that would mean providers would lose money (and God forbid that they lose a little money!). Those in power would rather let people suffer than to help them if it means that it would breach capitalistic ideas.

I found the videos to be very enlightening to the reasons the US has an unethical health care system. I say unethical because the system is clearly driven by money-hungry elitists who do not have the public in their best interests. The comparisons of the health care systems truly show the lack of compassion and baseness of thinking in the US. The health care system in the US is an extension the capitalistic ideas that this society is based on that leaves everyone to fend for themselves pulling other people down to lift your own self up. Our inherent fear of socialism and rewarding others “undeservedly” is the main cause for this divide in health care delivery. There has to be a shift in the moral fiber of the market-based health care system where everyone is treated equally and fairly. I think the government needs to play a more inclusive role in making sure that health care services are provided to those who need it, period.

Without having policy makers who truly desire and seek to establish a system to serve everyone regardless of economic status or other differences, then the US will never have the reform needed to help the uninsured. In the minds of the policy makers, health care must be considered a right to life and not only a privilege for those who can help increase their pocket size.