Originally posted by Beakybird:
Much of the reason for the current financial crisis began with Clinton's triangulation. With Republican support, he deregulated the financial industry, and the major financial collapse that occurred wouldn't have happened if he hadn't.
No politician can wage a campaign without the help of the rich, so both parties curry their favor. The Democrats are deferential, the Republicans are rabid about increasing their wealth.
Health care is now 17.3% of the economy and growing. Do you really think that if Clinton passed health care it would be worse?
According to the yearly Commonwealth Fund report:
Despite having the most expensive healthcare system, the United States ranked last overall compared to Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
The research measured five performance areas: quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and the ability to lead long, healthy, productive lives.
While there is room for improvement in every country, the United States stands out for not getting good value for its healthcare dollar, ranking last despite spending $7,290 per capita on healthcare in 2007 compared to the $3,837 spent per capita in the Netherlands, which ranked first overall.
Netherlands has universal healthcare. If government run healthcare is so horrible, why do they outlive us by about four years when they spend half of what we do per capita on healthcare?
Beakybird
I've been following the work of Dr. Aarron Carroll here---
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/ He's a health systems analyst who's really enjoyable to read...I think you'd enjoy him as well, Beak...
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Bill in Dayton
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