Dr Robert Massie: The Insurance System Needs Fixing in the United States

The American system of insurance doesn’t work, because we give the best care at the lowest cost to the people who don’t need it and the worst care at the highest cost to the people who do, noted Robert K. Massie, Jr, PhD, MA, of the Society for Progress. He was born with severe factor VIII hemophilia in August 1956 and contracted HIV in 1978, as well as hepatitis C, from contaminated blood products—and received care outside of the United States growing up, which he credits with saving his life.