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In our country, hospital are closings, health care workers are being laid off and substandard working conditions for nurses exist. In addition, we have seen a lack of protective equipment, insurance companiesâ massive profits without paying for hospital costs and millions of people uninsured and unwilling to have COVID tests because of the cost.
All these conditions are a result of hospital and staffing decisions being made on a financial basis. Since elective surgeries were canceled or postponed, hospitals have lost a primary funding source.
Here are the numbers and facts according to Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP):
Market-driven health care at odds with effective pandemic response
By Dr. Robert Devereau
The failings of an American health care system that is based on free-market principles have been laid bare by the worst pandemic the country has faced in 100 years. Most of us are familiar with the statistics that demonstrate that the U.S. has lagged far behind other industrialized countries in our ability to mount a coordinated response to the virus. We are near the top of the list for number of cases and deaths as a share of the population when compared to most developed countries. Compared to Canada we have had twice the death rate and a seven-day average of new cases that is nearly four times higher according to data from Johns Hopkins.
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