Private sector Health Care Failure
04.14.08 (12:35 pm) [edit]According to statistics listed in the New York times 27000 deaths occurred that was preventable in 2007. Ranging from emergency child birth to Lupus, COPD and Heart Attacks. It is alleged that if these people had access to health care rather than emergency room care that at least 27000 of these fatalities could have been prevented. The major reason for not having health care was that they couldn't afford it. America is the only developed country in the world that doesn't provide some type of health care program or access to it simply because you are unable to pay. We constantly complain about the lines and administrative bureaucracy needed to implement it but if you look at the longevity of life and the infant mortality rate in the U.S. as compared to other developed countries you have to agree based on statistics alone that the U. is in dire need of some form of publically financed health care rather than the patched up form of emergency room care that we provide at tax payer expense any way.