It's Broken...so Let's Fix It!
Oh my! the furor around the Affordable Care Act is mounting...and I am increasingly frustrated with the smoke screen being constructed by the brouhaha over the inoperable web site, over the numbers of people having their insurance program canceled, over the members of Congress who continue to take a do-nothing stance regardless the issue. I say "smoke screen" because it seems that no one...NO ONE...is addressing the real problem with our health care system. (NO, it is emphatically not the finest in the world , in spite of what we have been led to believe; hence, our position as 22nd in life expectancy among the countries of the world. That's right- TWENTY-SECOND.) And the real problem, as I see it, as I have long seen it, is the COST of health care...which is far, far more than in most developed, industrialized nations for the same procedures, for the same drugs. Fellow Americans, this so-called "best" health care system, which in reality is far...