So you think everyone should have healthcare? Well, yes they should. But be careful about opening Pandora’s box. Be careful about what you might wish for you may get it.
Imagine that your 86 year old mother has a heart attack and must be taken to the emergency room. Then imagine that when you arrive the hospital is waiting to see if you have private insurance or if you will pay all the costs accordingly. What is this you ask?
Well you see, under most national health care systems treatment is rationed. Doesn’t it make more sense to spend the money perform a triple bypass on a young, virile, male of 27 who may live a productive life for many more years that on an old woman who may very well have another attack and die in just a few months?
Do you really think national health care would waste all that money keeping Terri Schiavo alive. The plug would have been pulled as soon as she was declared brain dead, not allowed to live in a vegetative state for 13 years.
And look how well the government manages the veterans’ hospitals. With the government running all the hospitals and looking to minimize costs to what do you think our health care system would degenerate?
Most countries that provide universal health care do so at a high cost which is in fact paid for through high taxes. What, you thought it was free?? What, you thought Michael Moore was telling you the entire truth?
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- Steve Bernstein
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3 comments:
Most people are smart enough to understand what "free like the fire department" means. And they're smart enough to understand that higher taxes for health care would more than offset the private insurance premiums they now pay.
As for medical decisions made on a cost basis: you don't think they're part of the system now?
If you want to find the real story of Canada’s failed Universal Healthcare system, look no further than America’s boarder cities. The Buffalo News just reported a story about, Lindsay McCreith, a 66 year-old Canadian retired auto body shop owner. This story, accurately reported by Henry L. Davis, demonstrates why Michael Moore’s new propaganda film, “Sicko” is patently misleading.
I write about it at Copious Dissent - Your Daily Dose of Liberty.
I don't think most people are smart enough to understand what "free like the fire department" means. They have no idea of what "free" will cost in dollars, quality, limitations
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