Access by U.S. companies can't make NHS any worse than it is now. Especially if it includes dental services...
Posted on 06/05/2019 11:55:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just staking out a negotiating position he can give up later for them to fee they got something important.
I just mean I’d be pretty pissed if a British PM opined about and tried to intervene in our healthcare system. Tory or Labor I’d tell the piss the eff off.
I speculate that access to the NHS is what he meant. *
Meaning that a trade deal encompasses US companies having the ability to sell services and products into the NHS - that that is on the table in a negotiation.
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*I may be wrong. It happened once in the 70s. I still shudder when I remember that moment.
Access by U.S. companies can't make NHS any worse than it is now. Especially if it includes dental services...
All this time and these ‘journalists’ don’t understand how President Trump works.
Yes, same in Canada.
The DISTINCTION is between ‘health coverage’ and ‘health-care’.
A few years back, a Canadian was interviewed anonymously as he had come to Seattle for medical treatment. He was asked why he didn’t simply get the treatment he needed in Canada. He said he couldn’t wait and he had the means to get it done with a short trip across the border.
He was asked then about his view of the Canadian universal healthcare single-payer system. He said, “It’s great!” He was asked again why he was in the USA, didn’t he have coverage for his condition in Canada? He said, “Oh yeah! I’m covered for everything in Canada! Every Canadian has complete health coverage.”
Care vs. Coverage.
He was then confronted with his illogic. He finally admitted after he was ensured his identity would be kept a secret that no one dares say anything against the socialist healthcare system in Canada else the power of the state will come down hard you.
Socialist healthcare is a pillar for controlling the population. It’s not about health, it’s about control, about ‘compliance’, ‘obedience’, subordination.
Funny.
Oh, please.
I guess Dudley Do-Right is going to show up in jack boots and drag him to the gulag.
Correct...horrible as it is they love it.
You can mock all you want but it just goes to show you have no experience.
The state actions are not instantaneous or even quick. They are insidious and incremental over time.
Canadian doctors or US public clinic doctors are not beholden to the patient, they are state doctors tasked to gather information for the state. They are required to ask questions like the following as a matter of ‘Public Health’.
Sex
“How many sexual partners do you have?”
“Do you engage in same-sex activities”
“Are you polyamorous?”
“Do you masturbate?”
“How often do you have sex or masturbate?”
etc.
Child Caregiving
“Do you spank or use any form of corporal punishment in disciplining children in your care?”
“Do you ever send children in your care to bed without dinner?”
“Do you allow children in your care to drink sugary sodas?”
etc.
Socialization
“Do you have any animus or negative thoughts towards persons of specific ethnicity or religion?”
“Are you sometimes angered by outside events to the point of raising your voice or acting aggressively?”
“Have you ever threatened anyone with a weapon?”
etc.
Such questions are rotated per a sampling plan for the purpose of gathering information for government databases. Any refusal to answer such questions results in tagging the ‘patient’ as ‘noncompliant’, etc. Once a negative profile is created, it is never erased. And yes, if a patient has negative things to say about the socialized healthcare system, it is noted in the record and police may be alerted to keep an eye out for such antisocial persons who are suspected sociopaths.
And this socialized healthcare system has affected the Washington State Healthcare Authority. Parents visiting state-funded clinics such as university pediatric clinics have reported being routinely asked if there are any guns in the home. Parents have been ordered out of the examining room while their child as young as 12 years old is asked if they are having sex.
The difference between public and private healthcare is enormous. Public clinics are paid whether a patient has insurance or not. Medical staff at public clinics have no bond to patients whereas in private clinics, the patient pays for services either direct or through insurance and this creates a relationship that is respected between doctor and patient.
A trade for Illinois or New York would be fine, but not California as I live in California.
As Milton Friedman once observed, "If there ain't any, nobody gets any."
But there’s ‘COVERAGE’!
Just not with ‘care’.
“Hey! I got complete coverage!”
Yeah? Must feel good to get free healthcare.
“Care? I’m talking c-o-v-e-r-a-g-e!”
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