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Thinking Differently About Health Care

Posted on October 02, 2008

by John de Graaf There's a problem with today's health care debate in America. It's way too focused on health care.It's true that the American health care system is on life-support. Priced at nearly $8,000 a year per American, and soon to be 20 percent of our GDP, it's more expensive by 40-60 percent than health care systems in any other industrial country and totals nearly half the health care budget of the entire world. Yet it leaves 48 million Americans uncovered by health insurance and produces remarkably poor results. Americans rank 45th in life expectancy, right there with Albania. Af...

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