When you allow basic needs as healthcare to become a commercial asset, you are basically legalizing extortion, simply because it is impossible to survive without access to this kind of services.
The funny thing is: health industry makes billions of dollars in insurance sales / collections every years, but yet thousands of private hospital have to do fundraising despite charging thousands of dollars for a treatment that has a cost bellow 20$.
You guys are basically paying taxes to fund the military machine and the political parties machine (the yearly budget of a political party in the US is absurd), while that money could be used to actually improve the citizens life.
Just a fraction of the US Defense yearly budget would suffice to create public healthcare and public education, both with high quality.
This makes me sad a bit: I saw USA as a country with the potential to be a role country: a thriving economy, most of the people are very altruistic (the americans are the biggest donors in money / food / school material / etc) which shows the human qualities in the USA are there, the artistic movements are heavily supported(look at Opera: if it wasn't for american interest in arts, it would had downfall already) and my contact with american tourists is that they are the most curious ones, trying to actually know things (in comparison, most European tourists just want to know where are the better restaurants and wine bars).
The core of any business should be to add value not only to their shareholders, but also to the country. That's why people buy products: they deliver something they want or need.
But private health bring no value to the country whatsoever. In fact, it removes value from the country because the living costs are ridiculously high for a country with so many wealth and makes you wonder why are you paying taxes to start with.
The funny thing is: health industry makes billions of dollars in insurance sales / collections every years, but yet thousands of private hospital have to do fundraising despite charging thousands of dollars for a treatment that has a cost bellow 20$.
You guys are basically paying taxes to fund the military machine and the political parties machine (the yearly budget of a political party in the US is absurd), while that money could be used to actually improve the citizens life.
Just a fraction of the US Defense yearly budget would suffice to create public healthcare and public education, both with high quality.
This makes me sad a bit: I saw USA as a country with the potential to be a role country: a thriving economy, most of the people are very altruistic (the americans are the biggest donors in money / food / school material / etc) which shows the human qualities in the USA are there, the artistic movements are heavily supported(look at Opera: if it wasn't for american interest in arts, it would had downfall already) and my contact with american tourists is that they are the most curious ones, trying to actually know things (in comparison, most European tourists just want to know where are the better restaurants and wine bars).
The core of any business should be to add value not only to their shareholders, but also to the country. That's why people buy products: they deliver something they want or need.
But private health bring no value to the country whatsoever. In fact, it removes value from the country because the living costs are ridiculously high for a country with so many wealth and makes you wonder why are you paying taxes to start with.
