I must sound like a broken record ,

In 2007, the LA Times ran a story on a hospital that documented the fact that 35% of its profits came from 2% of its patients - the uninsured - who were routinely charged 3 to 5 times as much from treatment as those who were insured. That same year the US health system was rated 37th in the world, having fewer doctors and hospital beds and a higher infant mortality rate than it did in 1973. Congressio­nal hearings in 2009 showed that insurance company WellPoint'­s Blue Cross subsidiary plus two other insurers had saved over $300 million in claims by cancelling the insurance of over 20,000 policy holders over a period of five years. Collective­ly, HMOs employ roughly 200,000 people whose job it is to find ways to bump people off policies they'd paid into for years.
The US, by and large, doesn't have a health care delivery system so much as a health care denial system.

We need a public option for healthcare and a non-profit health care system. Why should anyone profit off the sick & dying? A for-profit health care system is inhumane--­its cruel & unusual punishment for a lifetime of hard work when one has to sell their home & assets to get treatment for a life-threa­tening disease. Pharmaceut­ical companies are bleeding the system dry while making us all sicker & sicker with the side effects of the "cure." We need a preventati­ve system that prevents disease rather than insisting on a system that claims it can cure disease when it can't. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

It astounds me that in the United States of America, the greatest country on Earth, in 2012, there continues to be millions and millions of people who do not have health insurance and/or access to competent health care providers. But, we do have billions and billions of dollars to spend on defense and 2 worthless wars (that are still draining money from the treasury), ­and a host of other programs that do nothing to better the lives of our fellow countrymen­. There are thousands of programs that due make our lives better but nothing would improve the daily life of all Americans, than to have access to health care. In the end, it is our own fault; we keep electing the same scoundrels over and over again.