Everyone else has some form of socialized healthcare either socialized insurance or socialized medicine. The very few that don’t offer some kind of public healthcare have private systems that are highly regulated.

So to sum it up, we pay double for care that isn’t any better. What else do you need to know?

Health insurance has been on the decline for roughly 30 years, and with that, medical care has followed suit, because the insurance companies dictate what the physician can and can’t do–the patient has no control control over the matter and therefore has to receive substandard care.

Health care insurance constitutes nothing more than a discount plan or something akin to a “dollar off” coupon. I’ll opt for Obamacare over the cr@p I got now.

Maybe if the cutoff for “history of the world” was 1865, he may have a point, but the US ranks dead last in healthcare among developed nations.

As long as our “system” is ruled by insurance companies that are nothing more than middlemen that drive up costs, as long as doctors are paid per procedure rather than a fixed salary like the rest of us peons, then we will continue to have a ramshackle system that is the laughingstock of the world.