Steve's barking at Mixed up priorities with health care in the US of A

Our government spends 1/3 of it's budget on health programs. Who knows what percentage of the private sector spends on it's health including  insurance and what we eat, going to the gym ect. ect.
We tend to think that's the money spent is how well the system is doing, the fact of the matter in my learned opinion that's a bunch of junk. The way you look at a health care system is what it has to offer. The US health care system offers a lot of junk. High deductible, long waits in doctors offices or clinics. In many cases you have a gate keeper that keeps you from getting the services that you really need.  Drugs that interact with one another. Over worked doctors and nurses.
What's needed is not to see what the cost is, but to see if were getting the services that we pay for, or are insurance companies not doing their jobs?  
I tend to think that a foreigner gets better services in health care then native born Americans ( I"m one of those, I'm not writing about American Indians.)
For those who think that America (I'm writing about the good old US of A) has good health care I only have to say your out of your cotton pickin minds.
Before one more reform is added on a full review of what is needed and how to get it is in order.
The next step is how  to pay for it. Most likely we'll have insurance companies but they must be well regulated.  
Oh by the way medicare and medicaid are not very good, there I said it. Medicare and medicaid stink.
And so those who happen to have stumbled on my blog have seen my rant for Monday April 11Th.