The Critical Condition

Peter Jennings interviews ABC News Medical Editor Dr. Tim Johnson about the condition of healthcare in the United States. Specifically, he speaks on the issues behind a nationalized healthcare system.
-Jennings: It is conventional wisdom that the rest of us pay for the uninsured. Do we or do we not?
-Johnson: Well, ultimately of course, somebody has to pay the bill. And it is often the taxpayer, directly and indirectly. But I think that we pay in ways other than money. We pay in terms of the increased poor health of people who are uninsured. The increased death rate. They also have a 10 to 30 percent less likely chance of producing income from a job, so we lose as a society. We lose medically, we lose financially and I personally think we lose morally.

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