Schwitzer health news blog

Nail in coffin for health care myths

Last week Niko Karvounis, on the Health Beat blog reported on the CDC's "landmark, and in many ways devastating, report on health care in the U.S." Niko lists some of what he calls "the myths that the report demolishes":

Myth: If people don’t have health insurance or get medical care, it’s because they don’t want it.

Myth: The American system relies mostly, if not exclusively, on private enterprise to support health care.

Myth: East coast liberals and the urban poor are the only ones who want a stronger public sector in health care.

Myth: America has the most and best medical technology of any country in the world, and by God we should use it!