Hello,
I was doing a bit of research on the US healthcare system since I know someone who wants to go there to live for a while and I discovered something that almost make me "puke" my lunch. Apparently in the US, everything related to the healthcare system is moved by private insurance like a market. As far as I understand, that private insurance is offered by the employers to their employees or is paid by the people. So, depending on your social and economic position you will get better or worse treatments since you will have better or worse insurances. So, for example, if someone gets cancer, he will get treatment or another depending on his insurance which will be more limited. Since it is a disease that needs the best professionals and the best treatment to increase the percentage of survival, in the end, those who have more money will get access to better professionals, treatments, machines, etc, and will have a better life expectancy. Those who are very poor will have (or even not have) bad policies that won't even cover these cases. They have public healthcare but apparently, the best quality is moved by the private hospitals and healthcare policies. I also heard that people go on eternal debt to get a loan to pay for their treatment for something as basic as saving their life! In fact, in Spain, there are even cases of foreigners from the US who came here to get treatment because in their countries due to their social position were not able to get some quality treatments.
In Spain, we have an universal healthcare system where EVERYONE no matter if they are rich or poor will have access to the best treatments and professionals since the best doctors and the best facilities are in the public hospitals. Yes, we also have privacy policies and private hospitals but people only go there for minor issues to not have a long waiting list, but if they got a diagnostic of something very serious it is always transferred to the public hospitals since, as I said, the best doctors and facilities are there.
Man, I thought about this and it says a lot about the morals, ethics, and humanism of both countries and cultures. Perhaps the Spanish economy is not the best, but at least its society puts more value on humanism and the life of the people no matter how much money they have. I think that all this comes from the anglo-protestant culture where people are valued by the money they generate rather than being valued by what they are, humanism. Looking at things like this makes me think that the worst that could happen to Europe and America is to fall under the cultural influence of Protestantism, Calvinism, and British colonialism. Many world problems like predatory capitalism come from Protestant Anglo-Saxon culture.
I just wanted to share this in order to start a discussion :)
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