The American healthcare mess

Last night, I was watching a news show on Swiss TV, explaining how Switzerland’s market-based healthcare system (very similar to the United States’) is ruining working people with no end in sight and how badly healthcare needs to be regulated in order to contain greed surging from all places.

Price regulation is not just needed for insurance companies (that probably should go away) and big pharma, but also from hospitals, physicians, specialists and all folks who contribute to the spiraling health care costs.

Once more, it would be good to address the causes of a massive societal problem instead of its more striking symptoms, and this healing process should begin much sooner than what politicians think, but let’s not start dreaming...