Here is part of a long essay about “The American Dream”…
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The foundation of any successful society is an effective healthcare system based around a simple objective — to provide the best service at the *lowest* possible cost and to guarantee access to every member of society. This objective ensures that healthcare provides the greatest good for the greatest number.
The American healthcare system is set up to provide the best healthcare at the *highest* possible cost — because this is what enables individuals to extract the most amount of wealth from the industry. And whether it serves the needs of everyone is irrelevant.
That’s why it’s so inefficient. A large chunk of the $4.2 trillion spent on healthcare in the US isn’t spent on healthcare. It’s spent on an industry that has been created to profit from people’s health.
As the graph shows, among high-income nations, the US is an anomaly in that it has the highest spending and the lowest life expectancy.
Healthcare in America is designed as a mechanism for creating wealth, not for creating a system that provides the best possible healthcare.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.transformatise.com/2024/10/is-the-american-dream-built-on-the-exploitation-of-the-nation/
#USA #Health #Politics #History #Economics #Capitalism
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The foundation of any successful society is an effective healthcare system based around a simple objective — to provide the best service at the *lowest* possible cost and to guarantee access to every member of society. This objective ensures that healthcare provides the greatest good for the greatest number.
The American healthcare system is set up to provide the best healthcare at the *highest* possible cost — because this is what enables individuals to extract the most amount of wealth from the industry. And whether it serves the needs of everyone is irrelevant.
That’s why it’s so inefficient. A large chunk of the $4.2 trillion spent on healthcare in the US isn’t spent on healthcare. It’s spent on an industry that has been created to profit from people’s health.
As the graph shows, among high-income nations, the US is an anomaly in that it has the highest spending and the lowest life expectancy.
Healthcare in America is designed as a mechanism for creating wealth, not for creating a system that provides the best possible healthcare.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.transformatise.com/2024/10/is-the-american-dream-built-on-the-exploitation-of-the-nation/
#USA #Health #Politics #History #Economics #Capitalism
Is the American Dream Built on the Exploitation of the Nation?
The American Dream is built around the idea it is the land economic opportunity, but this has always been a misconception.Paul Abela (Transformatise)
