Well, from my own experience, our healthcare flat SUCKS. Maybe I am not rich enough to get to enjoy the 'speed of our healthcare.' Maybe I just have a bitchass HMO, but I had a high priced PPO and it was no different. The insurance companies that are for profit are telling the doctors what to do and when they can do it.

Let's see - a broken bone that 3 doctors couldn't seem to diagnose (they didn't want to do new x-rays) but that I KNEW existed....leading to death of the bone....then 9 more years of begging someone to x-ray it or something because it hurt....then 6 months after I finally got the freaking x-ray to be able to get an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon...then... through 2 years of 'prescribed conservative treatment' when my doctor knew immediately what my problems were and wanted to do surgery. I couldn't have the surgery until I ran on the conservative treatment treadmill for 2 years, during which time, the conservative treatment that the HMO prescribed actually exacerbated my RLS, which is now so very severe and my nerve damage so extensive that they say I cannot have the surgery that I needed to start with and it would not work NOW anyway.

So here I am with a neurological disorder from HELL that compels me to walk to relieve the pain and I can't even freaking walk.

So, I just can't see how a person could hate the US's wonderful healthcare system as much as I do. IT DOESN'T FREAKING WORK and it costs out the ASS!

RE: The New Yorker: The Moral Hazard Myth