The US, as the only advanced wealthy nation to not guarantee health care to every citizen, is facing a financial and social crisis at the hands of its for-profit healthcare system.
By Sputnik
October 09, 2018 “Information Clearing House“ – In a damning indictment of health care in the US, the family of Nobel prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman sold his award to cover end-of-life medical expenses.
Lederman, the physicist credited with inventing the term ‘god particle,’ died last week at a nursing home in Idaho.
A former head of the prestigious Fermi National Accelerator Lab and a 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, Lederman had suffered acute dementia in the last years of his life, resulting in round-the-clock care and its heavy expenditure — a financial burden the revered scientist’s family were unprepared for.
His wife, Ellen Lederman, noted that the move was necessary to keep her husband at peace as his health declined.
“I wish it could be different,” she stated, “but he’s happy. He likes where he lives with cats and dogs and horses…
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Oh wow!
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Well stated, amoafowaa. My initial response was far less socially appropriate.
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It is sad.
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Truly sad.
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When you look at all the US families bankrupted by the cost of medical care, Lara, this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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