Guaranteed health insurance: people first, not profits

The American health care system is really one of a kind in the western, industrialized world: that it places profits over people. The concept of and belief in the free market has been unwavering in the land of the free, so much so that it was deemed fit to introduce the profit margin and turn health insurance and prisons into forms of industry. Specifically private health insurance companies are really nothing more than a greedy middle-man, like organized crime, which takes their cut from people and then pays doctors. It's perplexing that this system is ardently defended, and anything else to the contrary is labelled as socialism or government interference with too much red tape. Meanwhile approximately 45,000 people die each year in the U.S. due to lack of health insurance.

In the midst of the health care reform debate south of the border, Lou Dobbs recently examined other health care systems throughout the western world and realized, wow, they're really good. I know Dobbs has said some incredibly stupid and offensive things, as he is really hell bent on castigating illegal immigrants and Latinos, but Dobbs, like other conservatives, certainly does have his moments (which should be recognized), with some sound reporting from Kitty Pilgrim.

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