Every country's population has a right to decent, affordable health care. And in my book, less is always more and prevention is the name of the game. Unfortunately this is not the case in the American health care system.
And therein lies the problem. People go to the doctor or to the hospital because they're not feeling well and want relief. Yet they drown in the health care system and end up six feet under instead of leaving better than when they entered those doors.
Whether it's from over-medication and mis-diagnosis or no diagnosis with a pithy "
go home and die" prescription or an infection caught in a hospital. Yes, it's harsh and unfortunately it's more real than most would like to believe. It is not acceptable that
100,000 people die in hospitals every year from one or more of the
1.7 million illnesses they catch there. That's just frigging terrifying!
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