Via Matthew Yglesias comes this chart of health care spending as a percentage of GDP.
Let's get real. This is just frickin' ridiculous. That the media allows folks like Sen. Richard Shelby go unchallenged when he asserts that America has "the best health care system in the world" is grossly irresponsible. Instead, Sen. Shelby et al. goes unchallenged and unburdened by facts.
There ought to be a burden of proof required for the defenders, as there should be the detractors, of the current health care system.
Is it unreasonable to ask folks like Richard Shelby why the U.S. pays nearly twice what most other nations spend, has the U.S. declining in the major health metrics, places the nation at an economic disadvantage, and leaves some 20% of its citizens without coverage?
In what universe does that system constitute the "best in the world"?
There ought to be a burden of proof required for the defenders, as there should be the detractors, of the current health care system.
Is it unreasonable to ask folks like Richard Shelby why the U.S. pays nearly twice what most other nations spend, has the U.S. declining in the major health metrics, places the nation at an economic disadvantage, and leaves some 20% of its citizens without coverage?
In what universe does that system constitute the "best in the world"?
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