Health Care Sustainability Quotes
The United States in a few medical areas (such as treating breast cancer) is the best in the world but on almost all general medical criteria we are not at, and sometimes not near, the top. Dramatic examples are infant mortality and even life expectancy where we are not even as good as Costa Rica. A large proportion of the infant mortality lies within the women who do not have health insurance and hence have little or no pre-natal care. The smaller life expectancy is partially a function of the high infant mortality rate, but is also brought down by the large American prevalence of smoking, heart disease, cancer, traffic deaths, alcohol-related deaths and gun deaths,
His logic conflates the right of an individual to health care with the right of the healthcare provider in a zero sum game. Voting is a right, but that does not imply that the voting machine maker must supply them for free. The obligation of the state is to provide for and facilitate rights—to either provide the health care directly or pay a provider to provide it.
