Health care is one of the most pressing issues facing us today. A few months ago, I was unexpectedly pushed off my parents' plan and forced into the scary scary world of insurance on my own. And what I saw, in the current system, was not good.
Not only are people being denied care today, if we don't fix this thing soon our whole economy could be compromised. You think goldman screwed us? Wait till we are spending one third of our GDP annually on medical care.
Check out this excellent article on care rationing by Peter Singer.
The way we regard rationing in health care seems to rest on a similar assumption, that it’s immoral to apply monetary considerations to saving lives — but is that stance tenable?
Health care now absorbs about one dollar in every six the nation spends, a figure that far exceeds the share spent by any other nation. According to the Congressional Budget Office, it is on track to double by 2035.
President Obama has said plainly that America’s health care system is broken. It is, he has said, by far the most significant driver of America’s long-term debt and deficits. It is hard to see how the nation as a whole can remain competitive if in 25 years we are spending nearly a third of what we earn on health care, while other industrialized nations are spending far less but achieving health outcomes as good as, or better than, ours.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html
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