The TPP would strip our constitutional rights, while offering no gains for the majority of Americans.
Greece’s New Americanized Health Care System
   Greece Health Care. Dr. Giorgos Vichas, a cardiologist who helped set up an underground network to help Greece's uninsured cancer patients, at the Metropolitan Social Clinic outside Athens, Greece, September 27, 2012. (Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis / The New York Times)Just when the austerity-ravaged people of Greece thought things couldn’t get any worse for them, their universal healthcare system is dismantled and turned into an American-style death system.
   And while Conservatives here tout our healthcare system as the best in the world – even though every international study disproves this claim – the Greek people are horrified with that they now have to deal with: Americanized healthcare.
   The same is true in the United States right now where being unemployed and being sick is literally a death sentence in the American healthcare system. As a 2009 study by Harvard University found, 45,000 Americans die every single year because they lack health insurance.
   The difference between the United States and Greece is we’ve never had a universal healthcare system that covers everyone like Greece has. So when we hear that tens of thousands of Americans die because they don’t have health insurance – plus thousands more who are condemned to death by for-profit health insurance death panels denying treatment – most Americans shrug it off as just the way things work here.
   That’s why we should all be paying close attention to how the Greek people handle their new Americanized healthcare system, because it will give us a clue as to what we as Americans, living in the wealthiest nation on the planet, should be demanding from our government when it comes to health services.
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