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The Awfulness of U.S. Healthcare

politicians like to throw around 40 million uninsured, or something like that, scaring people with the stats. However, I wonder how much of that number is related to a) illegal immigrants b) single mom culture. The latter involving divorces, knock-ups, shackups, etc. where a family that would normally be supported by an employed husband with health insurance is then fragmented. This is especially glaring in ghetto / matriarchy type environments where the women are the "rugged individualists" and the men drift.

In addition, we have other issues, such as large influxes of illegal immigrants. And soon to be a large wave of aging baby boomers with essentially unlimited demands for medical care.

For some folks, they want their headache diagnosed with MRI / CAT-scan. I don't know if this is patient pull, or doctor push. In the latter case, doctors may push the most expensive diagnosis, in order to hedge lawsuit risk. If one in a thousand bad headaches is a tumor, then that one patient can sue for millions if denied a CAT-scan. So all one thousand "need" a CAT scan.