Healthcare Part II

I little while ago, I read a letter to an editor that said we should “join the rest of the world” on the socialized medicine bandwagon. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?! I would love it if our communities, like some in Canada, raffled off medical services annually to those who need them. I would love it if the government raised taxes to pay for health care, then, like those who can afford it in France, buy my own health insurance to get treatment when I need it. I would love telling the “unproductive,” like the retired and disabled in England, that they are going to have to wait indefinitely while “productive” members of society get treatment. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have diagnostic procedures (MRIs, CAT scans, etc) rationed, so that hundreds of people go undiagnosed like in Canada and the UK? Hippocratic Oath, shmippocratic oath.

To illustrate, a man I student taught with had an aunt who lived in England who didn't have any immediate family and was retired. She got cancer, and her doctor knew about it, but he didn't tell her or diagnose it until after she died because she was "unproductive." It was a good thing that that doctor saved everyone so much money by not prescribing expensive, lifesaving treatment to someone who doesn't pay taxes.

Our current system is without a doubt the worst system in the world. We are due for change, and hope for that matter. Don't mind that the WHO(that is often critical of the US) in a recent report found that the US has the highest cancer survival rates of any other country in the world and that patients in America can expect the most prompt and relevant service of any other country in the world.

And we here in America already have wonderful models set up for this socialized wonderland! Isn’t it wonderful that Medicare only has a 30% fraud rate? That’s only tens of billions of dollars annually right now. And how about the treatment that veterans get. Some of them even get the treatment that they need and don’t have to wait more than a decade.

If the government were providing it, cost would definitely go down! You wouldn’t have to pay administrators, just bureaucrats. The government has proved how efficiently they can run businesses. Just look at the restaurant in the basement of the Capitol Building. It only runs a loss of a few million dollars every year.