Health Care Is a Big Business in the United States

mc carey: Over the past two decades, the number of prescriptions issued in the u s is nearly doubled. The price of hospital services has outpaced inflation by an average of nearly three and a half per cent each year. U.S rates of infant mortality and maternal mortality are shockingly high. We also have high rates of obesity, diabedes and cardivascular diseases. So what exactly are we getting for all those pills and procedures? Or maybe the better question is why do we need so many in the first place?...