UNITED STATES: Health care – America’s shame*

The US is the only industrialised democracy which denies its citizens universal access to health cover. Jeffry Babb reports.America’s healthcare system is great – if you are a millionaire. For just about anyone else, it’s a national scandal. Americans have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but not to medical treatment if they fall ill.So much self-interested propaganda floats around about how marvellous America’s health system is that its true awfulness is not readily…

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