Keeping the Wealthy Healthy -- and Everyone Else Waiting

Our health care system is broken in too many ways to count. This article illustrates the corruption of money, yet again another way it's broken.

I do however believe that the heroic care that is used as example, as visceral as it may be, is romanticized out of useful context. I was first introduced to the single payer debate in 1994 when California single payer, prop 186 was defeated in a high priced campaign of lies.  A group of Canadian doctors presenting a film in Petaluma understood the single payer mechanism as vitally important and yet only the first step.  We have in this country a "Heroic Medical Care" system when what we need in this country is a "Public Health Care" system. Such a system would clearly focus on preventative care, well baby, diet, lifestyle, obesity, pollution -- all the little things that reduce the need for heroic medical intervention to a small fraction of the total program. This context is largely missing from the national debate. .

     If rich people had to wait in line for an MRI like everyone else, the American health care system would be changed overnight. We have one health care system for the 1 percent and another for everyone else. I call it wealth care.

It is predictable that millionaire doctors and administrators of hospitals would use the health crises of the ultra rich as an opportunity for fundraising.  After all providing that value is an important albeit unfair part of their job.


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