Why does a nation that boasts of (1) being the richest on earth,(2) being the most generous people on earth and (3) having the besthealth system in the world find it so difficult to protect itselderly citizens from financial destitution through acute or chronicillness, particularly since the United States is also (4) among theleast-taxed nations in the industrialized world?
I raise this question because less than a month ago, the Houseof Representatives voted for the largest one-time expansion ofhealth-insurance benefits offered the nation's elderly since theinception of the Medicare program in 1966. Although the bill passedthe House by a huge margin, it has its share …
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