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At an average of around $9,000 per person per year, the U.S.
has the most over-priced medical care in the world, according to a study
published in the medical journal, The Lancet. The study looked at 204 countries
over a 29-year period, from 1990 to 2019.
Researchers used a matrix of various health services that
included promotion, prevention and treatment of five different age groups. The
study, which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, came under
scrutiny by the Strategic Culture Foundation, which broke down the numbers even
further, blaming billionaires for perpetuating the problem in America.
“America’s billionaires derive the vast majority of their
net worth from stocks (capital gains and dividends), and from interest that’s
paid to them; and, since nothing does this for them better than healthcare
investments, the current for-profit system in health care is terrific for them;
and these few hundred people, billionaires, extract this wealth from the
hundreds of millions of Americans, the general public, and want to continue
doing so,” Eric Zeusse, American writer and investigative historian, wrote in an
article for Strategic Culture Foundation.
SOURCES:
Strategic
Culture Foundation September 1, 2020
The
Lancet August 27, 2020