Is U.S. Healthcare So Bad?

Can it just be a coincidence that the same week the crazy kid shot and killed the CEO of United Healthcare, that the Commonwealth Fund is promoting a September report which shows that healthcare in the United States is worse than in any of the other most advanced countries?

Of course not, and to make sure you know who’s really to blame for the death of Brian Thompson, a poll was just released by the Boston Globe which finds that a majority of Americans blame the insurance industry for health outcomes which aren’t very good.

‘They put profits ahead of people,’ is the narrative we are hearing from all my liberal friends who are so offended by the delivery of health care in the United States managed by for-profit companies instead of by a benign, people-centered government agency which is what exists in other countries like Australia, Canada, Great Britain and 6 more countries who have single-payer systems in place.

Right now, according to the World Health Organization, the United States ranks 40th in the world in terms of life expectancy, with an overall average of 78.5 years. Switzerland was 83.4, Italy and Australia were 83, all the countries surveyed by Commonwealth were 80 years or above.

And the Commonwealth Fund also points out, as they have been pointing out for many years, that we spend a lot more on medical care…