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Since 'Medicare for all' is a current demrat pet rock this old but very interesting article is very timely;

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Socialized medicine will create massive government bureaucracies — similar to our unified school districts — impose costly job-destroying mandates on employers to provide the coverage, and impose price controls that will inevitably lead to shortages and poor quality of service. It will also lead to nonprice rationing (i.e., rationing based on political considerations, corruption, and nepotism) of healthcare by government bureaucrats.

In supporting the call for socialized medicine, American healthcare professionals are like sheep demanding the wolf: they do not understand that the high cost of medical care in the United States is partially based on the fact that American healthcare professionals have the highest level of remuneration in the world. Another source of the high cost of our healthcare is existing government regulations on the industry, regulations that prevent competition from lowering the cost. Existing rules such as "certificates of need," licensing, and other restrictions on the availability of healthcare services prevent competition and, therefore, result in higher prices and fewer services.

Socialized medical systems have not served to raise general health or living standards anywhere. In fact, both analytical reasoning and empirical evidence point to the opposite conclusion. But the dismal failure of socialized medicine to raise people's health and longevity has not affected its appeal for politicians, administrators, and their intellectual servants in search of absolute power and total control.

1 posted on 11/14/2019 1:42:52 AM PST by robowombat
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healthcare institutions in Russia were at least a hundred years behind the average US level...

That’s a LOT OF ####ING YEARS in medicine!!

At least in the past few centuries.

Started in 1918...and then a few sentences later it says that HIV is mainly contracted through dirty needles or HIV TAINTED BLOOD IN THE HOSPITALS!

That means NOTHING got better in almost 100 years of the “revolution”

In some parts infant mortality is 10 percent!!!

That’s HIGH. Wow.

And that’s what dems want here.

Because this time they’ll do it the “RIGHT” way.


2 posted on 11/14/2019 2:35:14 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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L8r


3 posted on 11/14/2019 2:44:15 AM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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Womb to tomb.

Erection to resurrection.


4 posted on 11/14/2019 2:47:25 AM PST by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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bmp


5 posted on 11/14/2019 3:06:10 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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The moronic Democrats, including ‘Medicare for All’ Warren, should ask themselves if Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Jimmy Carter would be alive still if they had been forced into a ‘utopian’ socialized medicine system.


6 posted on 11/14/2019 3:07:04 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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Another source of the high cost of our healthcare is existing government regulations on the industry, regulations that prevent competition from lowering the cost.

Yet another factor is malpractice litigation, which awards millions to people regardless of any actual malpractice. That component of healthcare cost should never be omitted.

9 posted on 11/14/2019 3:40:40 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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“Medicine is the arc over which we establish socialism’’.- Vladimir Lenin.


11 posted on 11/14/2019 4:01:33 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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Sounds like a Democrat dream. The ruling elite/inner party will get excellent care and the masses will be oppressed and die if they don’t support the rulers.


12 posted on 11/14/2019 4:09:04 AM PST by Truth29
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Back in the 80's when Russia was still the USSSR, my sister and brother in law traveled to Russia with my nephew's youth hockey team that was going there to play hockey against Russian youth teams.

On one day they rented a cab and the driver was actually a doctor who was driving the cab in order to earn more money.........

14 posted on 11/14/2019 4:20:20 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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Whatever reasons the State gives you, they are lies. The purpose is total control and “equality.” communism is obsessed with making everyone “equal.” In reality, no one becomes equal, but no one is allowed to try to crawl out of the State-imposed misery, except the ruling party elite, Nomenklatura, which is given all privileges.


15 posted on 11/14/2019 4:34:25 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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FAST
CHEAP
WELL DONE

In Communism and Democrat run Government you don’t get ANY of them, in private at least you get a chance at maybe 2. With RINOs and weak Republicans you get lucky to get one. This goes for everything. DMV, Medical, Laws, border protection, housing, etc.


16 posted on 11/14/2019 4:36:29 AM PST by King_Corey (Buy American - https://madeinamericastore.com/)
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Moreover, the filth, odors, cats roaming the halls, drunken medical personnel

So clean the litter boxes and sober up the surgeons. Problem solved.;-)

17 posted on 11/14/2019 4:41:53 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Communist Bump


18 posted on 11/14/2019 4:47:06 AM PST by 4Liberty (The taxpayers can always take one more for the team. - The Government)
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Being a doctor was an occupation which held a very low social status in the USSR. Quite often it went to women who had flunked out of teachers college. They were largely glorified nurse practitioners, albeit not as competent as the ones we have here.

Despite this certain medical procedures like lasik surgery were pioneered in the USSR. Go figure.


19 posted on 11/14/2019 5:53:03 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Freeper reminder about Rahm Emanuel, brother of death gay doc Ezekial Emauel (in article):

Rahm is missing the tip of one of his middle fingers, right?

The claim he made for years:

“I was serving on a tank with the IDF in the Negev and I lost it in a tank battle.”

WOW...!!!

The truth:

He had a part-time summer job at Arby’s and he got it stuck in meat-slicer.

The truth is so trivial and stupid that it sounds like out of political cruelty that I made it up:

But that’s the truth.


21 posted on 11/14/2019 6:33:38 AM PST by gaijin
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btt


23 posted on 11/14/2019 8:36:41 AM PST by GailA (Intractable Pain, a Subset of Chronic pain Last a Life TIME at Level 10.)
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“I should make it clear that the United States has one of the highest rates (of infant mortality) of the industrialized world only because it counts all dead infants, including premature babies, which is where most of the fatalities occur.

Most countries do not count premature-infant deaths. Some don’t count any deaths that occur in the first 72 hours. Some countries don’t even count any deaths from the first two weeks of life. In Cuba, which boasts a very low infant-mortality rate, infants are only registered when they are several months old, thereby leaving out of the official statistics all infant deaths that take place within the first several months of life.”


Dems and others will trot out the claim that we have a “disgracefully high” infant mortality rate and even try to claim that Cuba’s is lower. Obviously if you don’t count deaths in the first months, your rate will be lower.

I expect this also effects average life expectancy because childhood deaths lower life expectancy a great deal.


24 posted on 11/14/2019 9:54:25 AM PST by hanamizu
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