While conservatives are busily abandoning the moral imperative of the 8th Commandment (and doing so in a pretty ugly way), T.R. Reid provides a useful corrective in countering the most prevalent of the fear and loathing being manufactured based upon the health care systems in other countries.
It is very good and a very good reminder of just what is NOT on offer in our own effort to reform the system:
The key difference is that foreign health insurance plans exist only to pay people’s medical bills, not to make a profit. The United States is the only developed country that lets insurance companies profit from basic health coverage.
Read the whole thing.