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       UNHEALTHY MODERNITY:




       If All Is Well With Our World, Why Do We
       Spend So Much On Health Care?









                  or decades, Afrikans have   nurses, hospital beds, surgeries and
                  been told that the massive   so on) … and this is meant to be
                  size of a nation’s health-  indicative of a nation that can take      Chioma Phillips
          Fcare budget is a great            care of its citizens’ needs. However,
          indicator of how well developed    doesn’t that massive budget simply   is the Editor of  Msingi Afrika Magazine
          that country is. For instance, we’re   mean that a huge number of Ameri-  and the host of  Msingi Afrika Television.
          told that the US spends about $1   cans are just in poor health?      Her hope is to see the Truth shared, with all
          trillion a year on healthcare for
          their citizens. They are actually the   The statistics on healthsystemtrack-  who will listen, for the transformation of  the
          biggest spender (per 2019 figures)   er.org are an indicator that big bud-  people and the continent of  Afrika - and the
          on healthcare globally, followed by   gets and modern medical facilities              world.
          Switzerland, Norway and Germa-     and pharmaceuticals may not be all
          ny. 1 trillion dollars. That’s a huge   that great: “Before the pandemic,
          amount of money. And this gargan-  mortality and disease burden rates
          tuan sum goes to machines, drugs,   were already worse in the U.S. than
          costs of hospitalization (doctors,   in peer countries. … the U.S. has



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