> America's health care the best in the world."

The US health care may rank among the best.
Unfortunately only those who can afford it have acces to it.
The others have to make do with far less or with nothing at all.

Privatisation usualy has the following effects to the customer:
- rising cost
- less service
- less quality
- less safety
- less reliability

Want examples?
Take a look at what happened to the infrastructure for electricity
distribution. (owned , but hardly cared for by the energy concerns)
Hightension lines have been neglected for decades, very little has to go
wrong in order to experience a major blackout - as happened only months ago.
Take a look at the brittish railroad network. Since the privatisations,
investments in maintenance and security plummeted.
It is now considered the most unsafe railroad network in all of Europe.

A nation is healthy when it can support its citizens by providing them good
and affordable education, health care, social security,
public transportation etc.
A healthy nation is a more productive one.
The state has little control over, and even less influence on these services
if they are left to the corporate world.
Expensive education and health care result in a weaker and less productive
nation.
Fewer people will have acces to the basic needs.
Those left out will be unable to be part of the economy and be a burdon to
it.

Any leader selling out to the industry clearly is not concerned with the
well-being of the nation he's been elected to represent.

Just my two cents.
To stop the flaming before it starts: the above opinion does not intend to
pick on the US or its president in particular.
It's aim is to make the reader think about the problem, and is directed
against all leaders filling their pockets while making the man/woman in the
street pay for it.

Ikke