The Difference Between Healthcare Insurance and Healthcare

Understanding the difference between healthcare insurance and healthcare is:

Understanding the difference between concerns for profits and concerns for patients;

Understanding the differences between the concerns of the healthcare industry and the needs of the healthcare community;

Understanding differences in the role and responsibility of government and the role of free market enterprise during a public health crisis;

Understanding the differences between acknowledging healthcare as a human right and upholding a corporate right to profit from human suffering.

If we don’t get this, and get it right, we will never be adequately prepared for the challenges that a pandemic presents to public health and the systems we put in place to secure and protect it…