Just recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) calculated that Britain, with its arrantly collectivized healthcare system, has “as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care. Twelve percent of specialists surveyed admitted refusing kidney dialysis to patients suffering from kidney failure because of limits on cash. Waiting lists for medical treatment have become so long that there are now ‘waiting lists’ for the waiting list” (Source).
In Canada, before one can receive proper medical care, one must first be referred to a specialist, and the waiting list for something like a gynecological surgery is “4 to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks. Also, Toronto-area hospitals, concerned about lawsuits, ask patients to sign a legal release accepting that while delays in treatment may jeopardize their health, they nevertheless hold the hospital blameless” (Ibid).
Anent the current healthcare system in the good old United States of America, it should be noted that medicine is and has long been already 50 percent socialized, and that’s why it keeps getting more and more costly. This process of socialization began not with Medicare and Medicaid, as is often supposed — both of which were inaugurated in the mid-1960s — but even earlier, during World War II, when government regulators, acting under FDR, ushered in unsound “private” medical insurance practices.
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Ray, as we’re apparently on the verge of taking a quantum leap toward socialized medicine in this country, your message is a particularly appropriate collection of related facts.
Thank you, sir.
The quantum leap you speak of is real and frightening, but not (I hope) imminent.
Just this past Saturday, Steve Scully of C-Span asked Barack: “At what point do we run out of money?” Barack’s answer: “Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we’ve made on healthcare so far.” Barack then went on to list “healthcare inflation” as this country’s big fiscal problem.
I have to believe that when people realize the healthcare system is already bankrupt, they’ll wake up. I hope I’m not being over-optimistic, probably am.
Hi, Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later.
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