We should make health care for all a reality in the US

It has become clear that health care in the United States is fundamentally broken.

Private, for-profit health insurance is an obvious market failure. Those who argue otherwise are either ignorant of the facts or willfully deceptive.

We should look to countries who have demonstrated evidence-backed solutions to the issue of health care for all. Countries like Canada, France and many Scandinavian countries not only surpass the U.S. in quality of health care (backed by multiple sources, as the U.S. ranks one of the worst among industrialized nations), but pay astronomically less per capita on those citizens for this superior health care.

Universal health care is not only more affordable than our current system, it will actually protect the citizens of the U.S. by making them healthy and productive and prevent anyone from death or illness due to lack of ability to pay.

In this heavily religious district, I would think I would find more leaders willing to take the message about treating the least among us as you would Jesus to heart. Congress should do the right thing and help the people they are supposed to be at bat for.

Support Medicare for all, and let’s actually make the U.S. a better place.

This story was originally published January 29, 2018 at 1:02 PM with the headline "We should make health care for all a reality in the US."