The health care system in the United States is broken. Among all wealthy industrialized nations the United States comes dead last in the quality of care it provides. Middle class families are going broke trying to pay off medical bills that there insurance providers refuse to pay. The United States is the only wealthy industrialized nation that does not offer universal coverage for its citizens.

In the United States, homeless Americans are being told to die rather than receive care. Patients are being refused life saving treatment because it cost there insurance providers to much. There is an entire industry in the United States that records record profits by allowing people to die daily.

In the United States security comes at backbreaking costs. Prices for coverage are soaring. No other country pays more for their health care than the United States, and a third of the 2.6 trillion dollars we spend each year gets pumped into the insurance industry.

Isn’t it odd how unrestrained capitalism is the cause of both our most recent economic collapse, as well as allowing these private enterprises to earn a profit in a fixed game?

In the United States 45 million Americans are uninsured. A third of Americans are either uninsured or underinsured. For uninsured Americans, insurance companies don’t pay a cent, we do.

Each and every one of us plays this game of chance. Many citizens of Canada will not evem enter the United States without first receiving insurance to enter the U.S.; they will not take the risk of getting hurt in the United States.

Why is everything broken? Why does the United States have a third world health care system? Greed, Unrestricted Capitalism; Not the free market- the fixed market; fixed for the richest one percent.

Socialized health care is not the right term, the right term is universal, unbiased, non preferential; paid by the people, provided to the people.

What is quality of life and what does it mean? In Japan you could expect to live seven years longer. In England you could expect more vacation time. In France you could expect a year long maternity leave. In Denmark you could expect yoga, provided by the government. These are all the benefits one receives through socialized health care.

What is stopping America from asking for universal health care? The notion that universal health care is wrong is a byproduct of the Cold War era, the invisible enemy still lurks, socialism is the opposite of freedom, capitalism is our great big golden calf.

I suppose things would be more entertaining in America if we stick to our guns. Would we have underground heroes like John Q. if everyone received the same coverage? If we had safer lives, would all of the drama and tension dissolve?

The real answer is that as long as the problem persists, the one percent has everything to loose, and as long as they keep us concerned with the same fiction that created the Cold War mentality, and the notion that Ronald Reagan tore down the Berlin Wall with his bare hands forever defeating the great enemy of capitalism, then they’ll keep the game fixed.