I have been involved in providing primary care medical care for 32 years and have encountered many ways that our medical system is failing.
The costs of insurance, medications and many aspects of care are outrageous. Many patients do not even have access to basic care. A case in point is the epinephrine, which has saved many lives. The cost of procuring it for clinics and patients has increased tenfold in 1.5 years. This is outrageous and immoral.
Compared to other developed countries, we have the worst medical outcomes even though those countries’ expenditures are as little as half as much as ours.
We must move toward a single-payer or regulated payers’ system, where reasonable limits are set on the cost of medications and care and in which all people are included. The Medicare for All Act 2019, which recently was introduced in the U.S. House, goes a far way to correcting a broken system.
Joan MacEachen
Durango
