France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.

I am totally not surprised. The US has coasted for 50+ years on the fact that we as a nation were so damn wealthy that we could subscribe to a system that is inefficient and cruel.

That time has passed. There are transactions, healthcare being one, where the classic free market simply fails.

Whether its single payer or a National Health Service (my favorite), it’s clear that, to quote Pete Townshend, The Music Must Change.