Your guide to Obamacare: Affordable Care Act to open Oct. 1
To its great shame, the United States of America was not the FIRST but rather the LAST industrialized nation in the world to provide its citizens with national health care.
Small wonder then that America lags far behind other nations in the quality of its health care, even though it SPENDS more -- obviously, only for the chosen few. If you doubt that statement, read the links below.
The Affordable Care Act will change that -- for the better.
In fact, we recently talked to someone about a hip replaced in America for a total cost of $110,000 (NOT unusual in the USA) -- whereas comparable hip replacement in Europe costs a fraction of that as the OECD writes
"[i]n 2009, the estimated price of a hip replacement on average across European countries was about EUR 7300, while the price of a knee replacement was EUR 6800"
-- those figures showing the great failings of the pre-existing US health care system -- a system that well-meaning but badly informed government shutdowners are inexcusably trying to maintain,
at the cost of many people's health.
See these postings for the true facts:
- http://lawpundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/united-states-lags-far-behind-many.html
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/most-efficient-healthcare_n_3825477.html
- http://lawpundit.blogspot.com/2009/12/health-care-bill-could-face-string-of.html
- http://lawpundit.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-exorbitant-price-of-health-care-in.html
