It really should not be.

Or is it the denials, the punishments, the:

Exclusion (This is where the poor, minorities, groups perceived to be immoral, etc. are excluded from treatment for one reason or another. This can also include the exclusion of groups such as minorities or poor from the profession itself)
* Bill would let Michigan doctors, EMTs refuse to treat gay patients
* "I was offered a .22 bullet"
* GOP Lawmaker Says Emergency Rooms Should Be Able To Turn People Away

Blaming the victim (Instead of finding treatment and cures for conditions, this is where the sufferer is blamed for it instead. This is perhaps most known with STIs, but can happen with other things as well)
* Victim Blaming Happens to Sick People Too

Delegating morality (This is where some sort of moral judgment or action is given to group to counter some perceived moral failing that they have. Pre-existing conditions and more)
* 'Thousands, or maybe millions, of scammers'
* Former rep Jason Chaffetz saying people have a choice between healthcare or an iPhone
* Opposition to the HPV vaccine
* Medicine has a "mandate" to "help people make healthy choices" as opposed to ending illnesses and treating injuries?

Disavowal (People who get their healthcare from us telling us we don't need their form of healthcare)

Marginalization (Inferior models for target groups deemed inferior, while one group gets cuddly and efficient, the other group gets cold and barely working and not something to be proud of, war vs public health crisis when it comes to certain drugs)
* The "war on drugs" goes from being a war to being a "public health crisis" when the face of drug use changes from black and urban to white and suburban

Polarization (Class, race, and gender are all socially constructed; so this is where the class, race, and gender differences are actually created through the healthcare system)
* Ethan Couch's "Affluenza" will never be a pre-existing condition
* Viagra (for men) can be delivered straight to your home while birth control (for women) faces mounting restrictions
* Drapetomania
* Female hysteria
* "Quality"
* "No right to healthcare"
* Notice how "affluenza" and "erectile dysfunction" are absent

Coercion (Insurance through work as access)
* Health Care Denial as Social Control
* "If medicaid ends, people can just get jobs with health insurance"

Centralization (Daraprim prices, patents, and insurance companies as gatekeepers to care)
* California launches investigation following stunning admission by Aetna medical director

Standardization (One of the other reasons why it's frowned upon to get prescription drugs from Canada)

Other forms of this social control (Such as definition of normal)
* Right Wing Medicine
* Right Wing Sexuality

Social control in general
* Types of medical social control
* Market-Driven Health Care and Social Control
* Medicalization

That make it the "best" or the "greatest" to the people who say that about the US healthcare system?

Mirrored at the Nerve Center as "world's greatest healthcare".

Categories: Across time, Class disparities, Double standards, Hypocrisy, NOT, Playing both sides, Selective outrage, Serious consequences, Trying to have it both ways, Vs