How Do We Cure a Sick Health Care System?

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet
Posted on September 4, 2007, Printed on September 5, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/61115/

Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves and their families -- unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular check-ups, let alone for hospital visits. Some of these people end up losing money. Others end up losing their health or even their lives.

The United States is the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship. As outrageous as that fact is, why is it so? What does it mean in the lives of individual Americans and their families? And what can we do about it?