Should a recession occur, that number likely will jump to one in four. Many people have called for it. Many more believe it should happen. But universal health care will never happen until we create the national will to make it so. We know that if the 44 million uninsured found their voices tomorrow and demanded universal health care, we would have it.
American medicine is the best in the world.
Of that, there is no doubt. And yet our nursing teams are understaffed, underpaid, and overworked. Our health care costs continue to rise at twice the rate of inflation. Today's one trillion-dollar system will double in cost to two trillion dollars in the next decade. This will adversely affect our economy, the deficit, the nation's small businesses and the middle class's standard of living.