07-25-2012, 03:40 AM
(07-25-2012, 02:23 AM)smegged Wrote: The answer is reform. I don't know what reform would work, but obviously the healthcare framework is at least in part to blame.
There are lots of countries with publicly-funded universal healthcare systems that spend less than what the US does right now, and provide equal or (more often) better care. The US is in a enviable position by being last on the healthcare train, really. They can examine in minute detail all of the systems already in place and use those blueprints to make a better one.
It won't happen though, because of the political polarization in the US. Every good idea one party comes up with is automatically a bad idea in the eyes of the other party.