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@lists.wedgeblade.net wrote:

Today's Topics:

1. Thoughts While Listening to America's Health Care Debate (Ellie Stock)

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