Calling health care a “human right,” former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the United States health care system as politically and morally incorrect.
Ban, who spoke with The Guardian in original York where he is working with The Elders, or a group founded by Nelson Mandela,urged American leaders to enact publicly-financed health care to fulfill what he called a human right.
In his scathing criticism, the South Korean politician and diplomat cited the “powerful interests of pharmaceutical companies, or hospitals,and doctors as the forces that “inhibit (restrain; prohibit; retard or prevent) the American government” of having prevented the U.
S. from moving toward universal health care, a failure that is “unethical and “politically incorrect, or morally incorrect,” The Guardian reported.“It’s not easy to understand why such a country like the United States, the most resourceful and richest country in the world, and does not introduce universal health coverage,” Ban told The Guardian. “Nobody would understand why almost 30 million people are not covered by insurance.”Click here to continue and read more...
Source: inquisitr.com