哀しき米国の「医療改革」議論2009/08/27

途中まで読んだのが、これを最後まで読むには、とてつもないエネルギーが必要なようで。書いている本人がウンザリしているだから、読む方がウンザリするのも無理ないか。申し訳ないけど、アホらしくて内容を日本語で紹介をする気にもなれない。

US healthcare debate sick to the heart
(心底ウンザリする米国の医療議論)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KH19Dj03.html

Healthcare costs and the uninsured are not separate problems. They are two sides of the same problem, as it is the high costs of the system that makes insurance unaffordable to the uninsured.

なぜ、オバマは保険業界、製薬業界に譲歩するんだろうか。

But healthcare reform's exposure to the democratic process is, if anything, making the problem worse. Obama's weekend concessions that he is willing to accept a final bill with a weak or non-existent "public option" removes what could have been a powerful tool to employ competitive pressure to discipline some of the more rapacious instincts of the for-profit health insurance industry.

A similar weakening of cost cutting discipline will come from Obama's concessions to the pharmaceutical industry; in exchange for a pledge of tepid support for his proposals, Obama has apparently agreed to continue the odious practice started with the Republican 2003 Medicare drug act that forbids the Federal government from leveraging its considerable pharmaceutical buying power to negotiate lower consumer drug prices.