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“For most working people under 65, we’re Germany or France or Japan,” Reid writes. “For Native Americans, military personnel and veterans, we’re Britain, or Cuba … For those over 65, we’re Canada … For the 45 million uninsured Americans, we’re Cambodia, or Burkina Faso or rural India.”
People in the latter group get care if they can pay the bill out of pocket. The United States, however, is like no other country because it “maintains so many separate systems for separate classes of people, and because it relies so heavily on for-profit private insurance plans to pay the bills,” Reid says.
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