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Socialized medicine simply cannot work in a "just in time" inventory supply mode. They have to plan everything out years in advance so it can be ground up in the parliamentary or Congressional mill.

It also costs more than our system ~ based on a comparison of what is actually delivered.

This has been one of the difficult problems the Socializers have had to face and have ended up doing a poor job of ~ it has to do with COLLECTING THE REVENUES that make it possible to run the system.

Their theory is that shifting bill collection to the tax system they reduce administrative costs substantially.

Actually, in Canada for example, they raised the costs of their national and provincial tax systems above those of all the G-8 countries.

Earlier the cost of collecting taxes in Canada was fairly comparable to the US, although a little more costly since they argue with each other a lot. Once they loaded the medical system revenue needs into the tax mill they ended up with the least efficient, most costly system of any major industrialized nation on Earth!

No doubt the same thing would happen to us.

So what's the deal? How do you save all those administrative costs and more than make up for it with your tax system? Well, the first thing you do is simply ignore what's going to happen when you shift the cash flow. Right down to the wire Canadians argued that there were going to be no additional costs, but there were.

Secondly, you have to recognize that our mixed public/private health care system uses the private sector insurance companies to ENFORCE revenue collection. You pay or you lose your services. In a Socialized system you have to keep providing services even if the beneficiary is no longer paying taxes and has his or her wealth hidden away in a Bahamian bank account.

The Canadians in the know tell us it's not worth it ~ they may be fuzzy on the details, but with what happened to their national and provincial tax collection systems, we don't want any of that.