I am a health professional and healthcare is an issue very dear to my heart. But healthcare can so easily become the victim of issues beyond its control. The recent events surrounding the withdrawal of the funding of key health initiatives around the world by the United States is an example of this. I have recently written about the danger of dependency by a country on foreign aid, but the danger of what has transpired goes much further than that. America is a democracy and its president was elected by more than 50% of those who went to the polls in what most would accept was a fair democratic process…
