Elbert: Health careâs tangled past Friday, January 22, 2021 6:00 AM Our health care system is tied up in knots to the point where it has not been able to respond effectively to the pandemic.
We are the only major country in the world that does not have government-sponsored health insurance. As a result, we are slowly sinking into a morass of our own making.
Infections and deaths in the United States are among the worst in the world. As of mid-January, more than 22 million U.S. residents have been infected with coronavirus and more than 400,000 have died.
Things could have been different.