Ban Ki-moon says the US healthcare system is <x0moral”

Former UN Secretary - General [UN] The UN] Ban Ki-moon has denounced the US health care system as politically and morally wrong, and has demanded that American leaders take actions that enable state-funded healthcare as the <x0 human rights”, writes The Guardian, translates Periscopi in Albanian.

Ban made these comments in an exclusive interview with the Guardian in New York, as part of his work with the “The Elders” [Pleqes”, a group formed by Nelson Mandela to deal with issues of global importance, including universal health care.

The United States has the most expensive health system in the world, costing more than 10 thousand dollars for an American.

“It is not easy to understand why a state like the United States, the world's largest resources country and certainly the richest one, does not provide universal healthcare,” said Ban. No one would understand why some 30 million people are not covered by health insurance. ”

Failure to health safety for all, he said, is <x0jotic” and “polically and morally wrong”. He accused the powerful interests of pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and doctors who “prevent the American government”.

This is for the people. Leaders have been elected because they have pledged to work for the people,” he adds. “They are abandoning people because they are poor, so these poor people do not receive adequate health care. ”

Despite the astronomical amounts spent on health, millions of Americans live outside the health system, unsurpassed, and unable to reach a doctor without entering hundreds or thousands of dollars in debt. Since Trump's election to president, another 4 million people lost health insurance according to a study by the Commonwealth Fund. /Periscopi