Paying for U.S. Healthcare
As seen all over the developed world but here, healthcare is a right not a privilege. Yet the United States, self-proclaimed best country in the world, falls behind in infant mortality , preventable deaths , pretty much every health statistic , that is until you reach cost , where we truly are number one. And the last point pretty much sums up the problem, the ever increasing cost makes a lot of companies, and by extension people, a lot of money. This money in turn goes to lobby our government officials who in turn push bad coverage, add loopholes, leave the poor (who cost insurers the most), without coverage and even allow insurance and drug companies to write actual legislation. Until we have legislators who actually work for the people, this is unlikely to change. If it ever does, I have a few ideas to fund a single payer government plan. I'm no expert, but maybe there are some things here that would work: Medicare lowers coverage age by one year, every year, until all are