April 28th - Is Capitalism's Need for Growth Bad For Us?

 As I've already decided, if I'm going to find my simple answer then I need to keep focussed.   So, in thinking about capital's need to find new avenues for investment through privatisation I'm going to see whether and how privatisation has contributed to the problems we face today. 
Two examples come to mind which might suggest that life on Planet Earth could be better if some essential services were publically provided: 
I recently heard of an elderly lady, accompanied by her sister, who fell ill while on holiday in Guernsey and had to be admitted to hospital.  She underwent tests, was kept in for a few days, and then returned home. When I asked her sister about the experience she told me that because Guernsey has no public health provision, every step of the way she was asked whether they had enough money to pay for the treatment. This added greatly to her anxiety and is something we in the UK, with our National Health Service, are unused to.  Without public and free-at-the-point-of use health provision, there must be constant worry about the cost of medical health care.  Just one step on the road leading to feelings of insecurity and worry and, I suspect, one very important area of life which sees a big division between the rich and the poor. 
I'm going to try to find out just what happens in the US if someone is ill because I believe health provision is big business in the US.  I remember that one of Barrack Obama's election promises was to introduce some universal health care but that his plans were thwarted by the industry. I have to admit I don't know much about it.