ABSTRACT
United States healthcare was almost nonexistent and through the Kaiser Company, which paid insurance to attract workers to build ships, health maintenance organizations and the Affordable Care Act became a reality. The federal government was instrumental in the 1960s in setting up Medicare and Medicaid, but that was not enough. Healthcare was given to the private sector, and mostly for profit. Healthcare is a right to which every patient it is entitled, as has been outlined by the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Healthcare is supposed to be given indiscriminately to everybody because this is what is supposed to be right for everybody. Mystification of the healthcare costs paid to the doctor should finally be taken out of the equation. The cost of healthcare is not the cost of the doctor but the cost of the hospital and the insurance.
