Sicko? Not in the US!

Far from being perfect (rather, far from being free), the health care system in USA has many advantages - especially when compared to the national health care systems found in most counties in the West. Let the numbers speak a little:

In fact, Americans played a key role in 80 percent of the most important medical advances of the last 30 years. Eighteen of the last 25 winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine either are U.S. citizens or work here. (#)

But what about the poor who can't afford health insurance? A classic question and answered in the same way for every poor in every market: Let the rich pay full price for the best treatment, thereby pumping money into innovation and technology, that eventually will filter down the price-ladder and become "standard practice" for the poor. This applies for glasses, food, clothes, microwave ovens and cars. It simply - applies! Not fast enough, you say? Much faster than any tax-funded centralized 5-year plan the State has to offer, and you know it!