The U.S. health care system is broken according to almost anyone you talk to. The only ones saying it isn't broken are the ones making money off of the existing programs -- insurance companies and for-profit healthcare systems and hospitals.  With over 4 million additional Americans losing their employee benefits since the start of the recession, the number of uninsured people in the U.S. has moved past 50 million according to some estimates.

Our infant mortality rates are among the highest of the industrialized world. This means that more American babies die in the first year of life than in most of Europe and Japan. All the while the insurance companies pocket 30¢ of every dollar we spend for health coverage.  At least medicare and medicaid spend 95% of the money they received on providing health care services.

Some will say that socialized medicine is evil.  I believe that not providing basic health care coverage to American citizens while profiting off of the ever increasing premiums the other's pay is what is truly evil.

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