<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Werner</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@healthwrights.org">david@healthwrights.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">[Comment by David Werner on "WHO, The world health report - Health
systems financing: the path to universal coverage" by Margaret Chan,
General Director of WHO]<br><br>This is an important if politically muted
statement, nominally by the head of WHO, based on extensive worldwide
research. The Report's indisputable conclusion is that the only way that
Health Care for All can be approached is through Universal Health
Coverage managed and paid for collectively, whereby the rich and the
healthy are obliged to help pay for the health costs of the the poor and
the sick -- through what directly or indirectly comes down to
progressive taxation. <br>
<br>The facts are in. WHO's recommendations for far-reaching policy
changes are clear, if politically toothless. As ever, the biggest
obstacle is the short-sighted resistance of the rich and powerful to
what they selfishly condemn as socialized medicine. What it comes down
to is that <b>the Free Market System is incompatible with Health for Al</b>l <b>-- and in the long run with Health for Anyone. </b><br>
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