COVID-19 Lessons from the US Healthcare System

March 4, 2021 Leave a comment

These are some of the main thoughts and lessons about healthcare in the US:

  • The US has the worst healthcare and health indices of advanced economies, and getting worse.
  • The US healthcare excludes from participation or provides low quality service to important segments of the population, including the unemployed, the poor, black and brown people, the elderly…
  • The US, as demonstrated by the mass vaccination failure, doesn’t have a public health system, it has a highly segmented, for profit, private health system, with limited access of the whole population
  • The US healthcare system is well known to have the most expensive system in advanced economies
  • The best healthcare systems in the world are national publicly-owned or directed systems.
  • One of the political parties doesn’t care about the serious deficiencies of the US healthcare system, and have no intention to improve it.

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Unknown's avatarAbout Stephen E. McGaughey
Resident of the City of Coral Gables; Formerly with Inter-American Development Bank, Senior Environmental Project and Policy Leaders, Agricultural Economics, Forest Sector Projects and Policies, Country Representative Financing in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic

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