Just happened across this article which is a very good read. I'm excited to read his book.
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http://www.atlantamagazine.com/featu...spx?ID=1648804
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But don’t some people believe that all this money buys us the best healthcare in the world? When we look at outcomes, such as life expectancy, we rank fiftieth. We have very high infant mortality rates. Even if you look at white male life expectancy in the U.S., it’s lower than places like Canada, whose healthcare system we criticize. We have tremendously more CT and MRI scanners than Canada per capita. People in the United States may not live longer than people in Canada, but we sure as hell do a better job taking pictures of them. We do not get what we pay for out of our healthcare system.
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It got me thinking to the state of healthcare in America and in my opinion what a disaster "for profit" insurance is. In an excerpt from the book a woman who noticed a lump on her breast doesn't seek medical help because of her job, insurance affordability etc...
Her breast simply falls off on its own.
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Edna has stage IV breast cancer. Disease has spread all over her body. Had she come to see me early in the course of her disease, it would have cost about $30,000 to cure her. She could have remained a taxpayer. Her kids could have had a mother. Now, the cure is not an option. Still, we’ll fight. We will give her breast-cancer chemotherapy that will cost more than $150,000, even though the chances are she will still die in less than two years.
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It seems so ridiculous that profit is more important than the health of the people.