[Oe List ...] OE Digest, Vol 24, Issue 14

[richard & Maria Maguire]

Thanks for this Ellie

We feel very unhappy about the situation of US citizens on health care.  
The US is widely known to have poorer health outcomes than a large 
number of industrial nations, with one of the highest expenditures on 
health care as a proportion of GDP in the world.

We feel that the current plan in the US is much better than what was 
there, but still gives very little for very much money, compared to 
nations like Germany, Australia, the UK, and many others.

I don't know what can be done practically, other than inform people that 
things don't need to be the way they are, and that the beneficiaries of 
the current system are the private medical industry, including 
especially the insurance companies.

We have seen conservative government attacks on the quite good public 
health system in Australia, generous subsidies to private health 
insurance, proposed introduction to fees for the now free consultations 
with GPs etc.  The main drivers seem to be the private medical industry 
like in America, and the ideology that private is better than public, 
even thought the opposite is true. Who would have though that 40 years 
after we worked on the New Social Vehicle  and our many efforts, that 
things would be this way still.

Richard


On 22/03/2014 5:03 AM, oe-request at lists.wedgeblade.net wrote:
> Today's Topics:
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>     1. Thoughts While Listening to America's Health Care	Debate
>        (Ellie Stock)
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