Let's face it. The American health care system is not crippled. It is not dying. It is dead. Our leaders and those who are supplying "life support" to this dead patient just don't get it. It is time to withdraw all artificial life support and acknowledge the death of American health care as we have known it.
What Americans must insist on is a new health care delivery system. America depends on healthy citizens for its workforce and its national security. As a founding father noted, expecting a democracy to flourish without an educated citizenry is folly. And the same is true for a democracy without a healthy population.
The new American health care system should take its cue from the template of primary and secondary education in our country. There should be a basic level of healh care, as there is for education, for all Americans. Basic health care, like basic education, is a right and not a privilege.
All Americans should be coverd by a national publicly funded health care plan. It is unjust and nonsensical for the nation's basic health to be strapped to the back of the business community. Basic health care is national right and necessity.
Americans wanting more than basic health care, like those who want a private edicaton for their children, should be able to pay out of their own pockets for this privilege.
A two-tiered health care system, based on Ameica's successful primary and secondary educational system, can be just as successful and enduring.
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