The Reality of Single-Payer Health Care
A comment was left on my previous post and I don’t want you to miss the link to this video.
It’s the story of a man with a brain tumor who could not get medical attention in a timely manner under Canada’s single-payer health care system and had to come to the U.S. for treatment.
Along with Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Sen. John Edwards supports “universal” health care. Would his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, have to wait in line for treatment for her cancer? Of course she wouldn’t. She’d get all the care she needed and you would pay for it, while you were waiting in line to get your own cancer or other disease treated.
While the politically well-connected were getting treatment at your expense you would be begging the government for permission to go to another country for treatment like the man in the video, or begging for reimbursement because you didn’t get permission ahead of time.
It’s also important to note that John Edwards made some of his fortune suing doctors, particularly OB/GYNs, alleging they caused cerebral palsy in infants. Those types of lawsuits which are probably based on junk science, raise malpractice insurance premiums. That cost is passed along to patients, and is one of the reasons why health care has become unaffordable in this country.
Don’t expect those who created the problem to fix it, especially is they got rich and powerful by creating it in the first place.
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