Hopes and Prospects: on Health Care


Noam Chomsky: National system covers all & removes wasteful inefficiencies

A majority of the public has long favored a national health care system, which should be far less expensive and more effective, comparative evidence indicates (along with many studies). The US is alone in relying on such a system, which, quite apart from its impact on those who are left out, introduces numerous wasteful inefficiencies (complex billing costs, close surveillance of doctors by insurance company bureaucrats, advertising, profits, the expenses of cherry-picking and denial of treatment on the basis of small print, reliance on expensive emergency room care for the tens of millions of uninsured and underinsured, etc.). Largely for these reasons--and because of the legislation, unique to the US, that bars government negotiation of drug process--per capita health care costs in the US are about twice those of other industrial countries, and outcomes rank low among them.
Source: Hopes and Prospects, by Noam Chomsky, p.226 Jun 1, 2010

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