Readers Respond: Oregonians Should Move to Universal Health Care

Readers respond: Oregonians should move to universal health care

Oregon’s health care system is at a breaking point. Hospitals on the verge of collapse. Birthing and dialysis centers are closing down, leaving Oregonians in the lurch. Hospitals and clinics are relying on outside corporate private equity firms for injections of cash just to stay afloat. This cedes ownership and operations to those with a profit motive - those who are accountable to their shareholders and not the patients served.

US health care is crumbling from within

The U.S. spends more on health care than any other country – so why is life expectancy still lagging behind? The answer reveals a system built to resist change.

UnitedHealth puts profit over health care

One thing that resulted from the killing by Luigi Mangione of the CEO of the health insurance conglomerate known as UnitedHealth is that it has resulted in that company’s practices getting closer scrutiny. And what is being revealed is ugly and bound to create even more anger against the company and its executives. The whole private health insurance system in the US is systematically flawed and breeds corruption. Putting in private, profit-seeki…

The American Medical System Puts Profit Over Health

A masked man passes the former Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center on Boulevard in Atlanta on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) For most Americans, paying for healthcare without insurance is simply not feasible. Nationwide, 26 million people are uninsured, with an additional one in four Americans underinsured—meaning they have insurance but nonetheless struggle to cover medical costs. As the Trump administrati…