Lack of medical care in United States called a national disgrace

WASHINGTON.-The health care system in the United States, "the richest country on earth where tens of millions people have to live in a state of medical care insecurity," has been called a national disgrace.

PL agency reported that Los Angeles Spanish-language daily La Opinión published an editorial affirming it is an outrageous situation that "the most advanced medicine on the planet is not available to all."

The paper’s on-line edition considers that the crisis in medical cover worsens daily, as confirmed by the Census Bureau that revealed 43.6 million people lacked health insurance in 2002.

The daily urged for a balance between expenditure and medical services where the main winners would be patients, not the shareholders in private medical facilities and insurance companies, as has been the norm to date.

La Opinión’s editorial insists that everyone should have the right to suitable medical care, although this is not specified literally in the Constitution.

"The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that has no system guaranteeing health care for its people. This is a disgraceful and aberrant situation, especially at a time when it wants to spend tens of thousands of million of dollars rebuilding other countries," the editorial points out.