Any Major League Baseball fan can tell you that the New York Yankees have the largest payroll, and that it’s gotten them pretty far. They’ve easily won the most World Series; they’re always in the playoff hunt and because they can generally outspend any other team, they get the best of the best. Call it spending to win. And as much as you might hate the Yankees (and trust me, I do), you have to admit that their system works.
So why doesn’t this philosophy of spending more to get more succeed when it comes to American health care? Why does the United States pay substantially more than any other country, more than $7,000 annually per capita, and our country ranks 37th according to the World Health Organization when it comes to health systems? Why do we as a country accept that 18,000 people in the U.S , the world’s wealthiest nation, will die this year because they’re uninsured? Why are we the only wealthy, industrialized country that doesn’t provide coverage for all of its citizens? Read the rest of this entry »
