Some thoughts on Rationing

All health care is rationed in some way.

In the U.S. health care is rationed based on income: if you have the money you get it, if you don't, you won't.

This is Not how it is done in most developed countries. Almost all developed countries in the world provide some form of Universal health care.

Universal health care means that all residents of a country have access to health care regardless of income level.

According to a study published by the Institute of Medicine, approximately 18000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance.

In 2000 the World Health Organization published a report assessing the Worlds health Systems. Did you know that the U.S. ranks 37th out of 191 countries? That's below Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Singapore and Morocco to name a few.

Here is a quote from the report:
"The impact of failures in health systems is most severe on the poor everywhere, who are driven deeper into poverty by lack of financial protection against ill- health, the report says."