We are told the United States has the very best medical system in the world. We don’t! It is the most expensive by any measure. Tens of millions are not only not covered by employer insurance, millions have none including Medicaid. Millions have no access to a doctor because they can’t afford it or live too far from any clinic or doctor’s office.
The administration is pushing vaccines from American companies when the best and closest to being utilized is the one from Oxford University and made by AstaZeneca, a French company. While others were testing on baboons and monkeys, Oxford was testing on hundreds of people. They started on tens of thousands around the world while our administration pushes making vaccines and skipping large number testing. Oxford’s produces anti-bodies and T-cells which may be permanent verses the American vaccines which have lower effectiveness and no T-cells requiring many shots. Trump says he (meaning tax money) will pay for the first one. We will pay for the rest.
More than two centuries ago Spain’s King Carlos learned a cow pox vaccination prevented small pox which killed hundreds of thousands of Europeans each year. He had all of his subjects in Spain quickly protected and using a novel system everyone; white, brown, or black, in his colonies were protected. Twenty orphans shipped across the Atlantic were infected on a two by two basis so the cow pox survived. It was repeated across the Pacific. Most of the world was free a century before we were declared free in 1949.
Most of the developed world beats us in cost and results. Many insurance companies are sending their insured to other countries for operations and recovery. It is cheaper, has better results, and is quicker.
It is time billionaires quit compromising our care!
Commentary About the Blue Marble 