Posted on 03/19/2017 12:11:20 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The rich eat better, drive better vehicles, and live in better homes in better neighborhoods, but purchasing better health care is somehow a sin to those who think you shouldn't have it
An article in the March 18 issue of the Toronto Star, a left-leaning publication, got my blood boiling! It is titled “Buying their way to the front of the health-care line.” That is followed, in large bold lettering, by the question, “Should the wealthy be allowed to buy their way to faster health care at private clinics?”
My question to the authors is: Who the hell are you to deny me better health care if I can pay for it?
No those first in line should be those with political power and party membership. The Nomenclatura.
Canadians have raised now a couple generations of sheep who accept socialism/fascism in its soft-forms. It seems they are steadily learning to accept socialism/fascism in all its hard forms too.
ALL fascist government controlled markets will lead to “black” markets. If Canada is smart, it will allow them to develop. They will reduce demand pressure on inefficient state-run markets, and will provide a reference to controlled markets for what price and service levels should be.
WE ARE AT THIS POINT IN THE USA. We must allow completely free-market, non-manipulated 3rd party payer systems to develop in the USA. Our present system that is a hairball of 3rd-Party and Government-mandated complexity will NEVER become cheaper or more efficient. Citizens and doctors MUST be given choice to develop alternatives between themselves.
My question to the authors is: Who the hell are you to deny me better health care if I can pay for it?
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Who is he, you ask? Why he’s a card-carrying member of the Socialist Administrative Authority, the leaders of which will DICTATE to you exactly what you can and cannot do with the money the state permits you to have. So be careful not to ask such questions or they many force you to take reeducation classes!
“My question to the authors is: Who the hell are you to deny me better health care if I can pay for it?”
I know I am asking for it, but I have to say it anyway. What would be considered “better health care?” If both a rich and poor person break their arm, does the poor person have to suck it up and live with a broken arm while the rich person makes a phone call and a portable MASH unit is at their room at the 4 Seasons?
I think there needs to be some context put around this. Anyone and everyone gets health care. Whether you are rich or poor, you break your arm and it will get repaired. Whether you go to the emergency room at the local hospital or some concierge doctor whose hospital looks more like a spa than a hospital treats you, the result is the same. The arm is repaired.
The arm will be x-rayed, and casted the same way. What exactly are they trying to say about the “cost” of health care and who should get what?” Frankly, if I can afford a private physician in a private hospital, where I can pay to have a latte brought to me while I am being treated, why is it anyone’s business? And if you cannot have that type of care, why should anyone else pay for it?
That is what money is for.
It gets you to the front of the line and reduces hearing the word “No” or “Wait”...
If Canada’s health care system is so wonderful, and I’m constantly being told it is, why did the President of Newfoundland go to the US when he needed life saving heart surgery?
Having a 3rd party system that pays for everything is what f**** up healthcare in the first place. You need to enforce Title 15 against insurers and providers, have insurance for unforeseen expensive stuff, and the rest gets paid for out of pocket or with a loan or credit card.
One may argue against that, but as Karl Denninger has repeatedly demonstrated mathematically anything other than that is going to lead to the countries bankruptcy. Doing it means taking a GDP hit when prices normalize about 90% lower, and probably water cannoning and beating the snot out of some protesters, but it’s the only way to stabilize finances.
I would come after him with an expansion of his thesis: why should Canadians get better health care than people in Somalia get?
If you average available health resources among the population of the world, then NOBODY gets care beyond some bandages. The socialists don’t want to think about THEIR health resources being redistributed to billions of people who are poorer than them.
The underlying issue is with the lefts unspoken envy that a rich person can buy access to multi hundred thousand or million dollar treatments for extreme debilitating or fatal illnesses that the poor have no access to (nor probably should they other than through charity).
They think everyone should be able to access the cutting edge, and they’re willing to go to any length of miserable sob story to get their way. Their audience is an increasingly amoral (therefore more often drastically sick) and terrified of death demographic that readily devours the bullshit that if everyone is just squeezed for enough money, everyone, rich and poor, will live to 100+ and die playing racquetball.
The problem with this is that in the functional capitalist mode of medicine it’s these rich people who would drive the R&D, with poorer classes benefiting through time as the principle treatment and its spinoffs evolve.
Under our current system, which is attempting to provide “miracles to all”, medicine has ended up like college education, gazillions of dollars are floating around guaranteed due to all the government programs and 3rd party systems with no incentives to manage cost, particularly since the legal branch has made it policy to turn a blind eye to collusion and price manipulation.
I left the word "non" out of my post. I agree 100% - 3rd party cost shuffling, particularly with a government that creates debt in a printed, fiat currency, means chaos and inflation in health-care. Let a CASH market develop, involving only patients and doctors.
Nice....except. What about the person who makes, say, $21,000 a year and suddenly finds that they’re in need of emergency surgery for their daughter? Or if they develop cancer? Where is the person going to get that kind of cash?
The PREMIER of Newfoundland went to Florida on a winter vacation and had a surgical procedure that had been developed IN Canada performed on his own time and dime.
Tell me, if you could choose between Nfld and Fla for where you are going to convalesce in winter, where would you go?
I thought so.
We have inflated the costs of all medical care through the roof, when in fact technology should have caused prices to steadily drop to very low levels. Our present health-care system is a huge bubble, supported by massive government spending and debt.
No doubt, if we removed 3rd-Party payer, the present system would self-destruct. It would cause great stress and dislocation for a while - but prices throughout the whole medical cost-chain would drop drastically. I doubt Americans would accept it, even though it is needed - which is why we are headed towards 100% government controlled health care. I am certain America and its politicians will choose to make the present problems even worse.
Regarding emergency care, If there were a free-market, and I were to pay only $25 for an X-ray to my normal GP, what justification would an emergency room have to charge $1000? Besides, someone could buy catastrophic insurance just like they do on their home or similar to present life-insurance. Hospitals could still be run by local cities or counties for their citizens. Let states and local governments manage it. No doubt social organizations would step up greatly as well. There are 1000 possibilities with the free-market. There is only one path with Fed.gov in control.
Change the words "health-care" to a need even more basic to human life - "food."
Do America's "poor" suffer from a lack of food? Hardly - they suffer from too much of it. America's relatively uncontrolled market has delivered so much food, people are actually killing themselves because of it. Can everyone afford caviar or wild salmon? No, but that's not needed to be healthy - neither is 4 seasons concierge care.
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