What’s wrong with the American health care system?

This video, Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? goes a long way toward answering that question.

Greg Palast — Not Insurance, Let’s Provide Health Care for Everyone

Greg Palast is an award-winning investigative journalist. Now he interviews insurance company whistleblower, Wendell Potter. Here’s part of Palast’s article:

We can’t cure our ills, as our president has attempted, by attacking the problem ass-backwards. No, Mr. Obama, we don’t need HEALTH INSURANCE for everyone, we need HEALTH CARE for everyone. There’s a giant difference. Instead of concentrating on PAYMENT, we need to focus solely on providing the health SERVICE.

Read the entire article and hear the interview here.