The doctor will come in and say "I could cure you, but the government has decided that you should die instead. Please go home and stop fighting it."
The only way the government can keep the rationing system going is by making it as opaque as possible.
"We need a rationing process which is transparent, consistent, evidence-based and fair."The doctor will come in and say "I could cure you, but the government has decided that you should die instead. Please go home and stop fighting it."
The only way the government can keep the rationing system going is by making it as opaque as possible.
Russians who were denied "rights" which the commies had no intention of respecting would be wait in line in one office, then get shuffled off to another one in a different place or city, until they lost interest - or tumbled to the reality and became vocally cynical, when they would be shipped off to the gulag until they were quietly cynical. Or quietly dead.Nobody would want to trade places with the fabulously wealthy Queen Victoria, because the health care available in the Nineteenth Century was negligible compared to today's. She was depressed for the last 20 years of her life because her husband died - and nobody much dies of typhoid these days. But even so, people still die - so health care technology is obviously still woefully inadequate to the purpose.
Other needs such as food are of finite utility, but health care is in principle of unlimited secular utility. Therefore we can see that the free market will eventually make health care the predominant factor in the economy. Socialism, by contrast, promises to make health care cheap. Hillary will always talk about "quality" health care, but the reality of socialism is that cost can always be held down somehow (no matter how deleterious) - and convenience and quality are inevitably the first casualties.
Socialism destroys the freedom to use your own money to reward quality - then condemns those who don't provide better quality than they have any reason to do. Socialism is finally just criticism, condemnation, and complaint. Just like journalism. And people wonder why journalists are socialist-minded . . .