Keep Healthcare for the Rich

The debate over health care reform in the United States centers on questions about whether there is a fundamental right to health care, on who should have access to health care and under what circumstances, on the quality achieved for the money spent, and on the sustainability of expenditures that have been rising faster than the level of general inflation and the growth in the economy. Most personal bankruptcy in the United States is caused at least partly by medical debt which is almost unknown in other countries in the developed world. The United States spends a greater portion of total yearly income in the nation on health care than any United Nations member state except for East Timor (Timor-Leste), although the actual use of health care services in the U.S., by most measures of health services use, is below the median among the world's developed countries.[5]