PROUT Editor's note: The USA is not the ideal place to live. The USA does not even provide health care to its citizens. Only the employed receive health insurance, and even many of the employed are not provided health insurance coverage by their employers. Yet, just to the north, in Canada, every single citizen is taken care of. Any Canadian citizen can walk into any hospital and be cared for. So why are Americans under some absurd illusion that the USA is the greatest place to be? The American Medical Association (AMA) has more than 1000 lobbyists who make sure that Americans are brainwashed into believing that Canada is a socialist country with socialized medicine. The AMA makes sure that American citizens never demand universal health care. American health care is no longer in the public sector. It has been 100 percent taken over by private corporations. Corporate executives rather than doctors decide on many medical cases, because the bottom line is the cost, not the patient's welfare. Eighteen thousands Americans die prematurely every year because of no health insurance and hence not going for necessary treatment.
Failing to provide health care is failing to provide basic human rights. It can also be called crimes against humanity on the part of the political leaders. Failing to provide health care is against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Any American president who fails to provide health care to all citizens should be tried for crimes against humanity at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and locked up for life.
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by Kevin Dobbs
published: 10/19/2004
Patients Claim Intimidation
As part of a nationwide string of hotly contested lawsuits against nonprofit hospitals, South Dakota's major health systems are being accused of overbilling uninsured patients and profiting from abusive debt-collection tactics.
