US Healthcare 'Crisis' Gets Mention, Medicare for All Still 'Radical'
The Independent breathlessly reports that a quarter of Americans think healthcare is 'in crisis' due to soaring costs. This is treated like breaking news. Meanwhile, a fully funded, universal system – like the ones in countless other industrialized nations – remains a 'radical' pipedream in US political discourse. It's almost as if the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, who poured over $2.3
billion into lobbying and campaign contributions in 2023 alone (OpenSecrets.org), prefer things this way. Congress is 'no closer to finding a solution,' the article laments. Perhaps because 'finding a solution' might involve discomfiting the very corporations whose profits correlate inversely with the public’s health. How many bipartisan committees does it take to point out that prioritizing
corporate greed over public well-being is, in fact, the crisis?