Government Health Care and Personal Economies

• It leads to delays where, as in the case of Canada, patients wait for 17 weeks on average from the time a general practitioner indicates that something is wrong until one visits a specialist;

• It leads to rationed care, where people not only wait for years for things such as hip replacements, but often find themselves forced to pay for such out of their own pockets in foreign countries;

• It has a negative effect on mortality rates, as we see those who suffer from certain diseases such as cancer, surviving half as long in countries like England compared to patients in the United States......

Socialized health care would die if the insurance industry took it upon themselves to take on reform. They could break away from employer based pools and do something about pre-existing if they wanted to. Like the bankers, they are enablers of these socialists.

We live 4 miles from Canadian border in Ak; have a bunch of Canadian friends and most like their health care for minor visits to the clinic. It's the major hospital visits where the problem lies and they know it themselves.

Last year, I had a buddy from Dawson who almost died waiting to get into Whitehorse hospital. The local clinic kept running tests when they should have life flighted to the hospital. After a week and a half, he had one lung full, the other half full; couldn't breath. My buddy told me he wasn't going to make it thru the weekend and problem was that they didn't have a bed for him at hospital, how overloaded they are and how under prepared the govt health care has left Canada. I was going to drive over, pick him up and drive the thousand miles to Anchorage to get him in a hospital, no joke. Finally after like a week and a half, my buddy's relatives took him into the clinic raising all kinda heck and they immediately flew him to Whitehorse hospital. He was there 2 weeks recovering until they released him.

I never want that quality of care in the USA, no matter what it costs me;;; bottomline.

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