Government healthcare Is a proven failure

We have entered the twilight zone. Bernie Sanders is pushing for a greater federal role in U.S. healthcare even as we watch the collapse of government-run healthcare in Great Britain and Canada

While single payer, socialized medicine, Beveridge model, Medicare-for-All, Medicare Extra For All, universal healthcare, and National Health Service (NHS, Great Britain) have minor technical differences, fundamentally they are all government healthcare, where bureaucrats – not patients – make medical as well as spending decisions.

Three weeks ago, the Guardian confirmed a growing exodus of senior physicians and surgeons from Great Britain relocating to other countries. The on-going British doctor shortage comes as no surprise. British doctors went out on strike in 2016, and since then, their dissatisfaction with the NHS has only gotten worse.

Wait times for NHS care have been medically dangerous for years and are getting longer. Delays in diagnosis and treatment of cancer and heart disease result in avoidable, unnecessary deaths.

In January 2018, the NHS announced cancellation of “50,000 scheduled surgeries” due to insufficient staff and/or facilities. There is no evidence these insufficiencies have been addressed.

Government healthcare is a popular idea, but it is not a good idea. It is inefficient, does not provide good care, and is more expensive than private healthcare.

Government bureaucracy is inefficient. This is because government agencies are often slow to make decisions, they are often wasteful of resources, and they are often subject to political interference. As a result, government healthcare systems are often plagued by long wait times, shortages of doctors and nurses, and low-quality care.

Government healthcare systems are also more expensive to administer than private healthcare systems. This is because government agencies need to hire more bureaucrats to manage the system, and they need to pay for more regulations and paperwork. As a result, government healthcare is more expensive for taxpayers.

Finally, government healthcare systems tend to provide less choice and control over care. This is because government agencies decide which doctors and hospitals are part of the system, and they decide which treatments are covered. As a result, patients often have to wait longer to see doctors, they have fewer treatment options, and they have less control over their care.

For all of these reasons, government healthcare does not work. It is inefficient, does not provide good care, and is more expensive than private healthcare. If you want to have good healthcare, you should support private healthcare, not government healthcare.

Thank you for referencing that article MtnClimber.

"Government healthcare Is a proven failure"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Government social spending programs aren't necessarily proven failures imo.

With all due respect to freeper parents, please consider the following.

One problem with the constitutional republic is that parents evidently aren't making sure that their children are being taught the Constitution's division of federal and state government, especially the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, powers as the drafters of the Constitution had intended for those powers to be understood.

"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people [emphasis added]."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)

But the BIG problem with the constitutional republic is when constitutionally illiterate children grow up and have voting power.

More specifically, crook candidate federal politicians follow the tsunami of post-17th Amendment ratification, unconstitutional federal taxes to DC (see Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above) by exploiting low-information voters by promising the people all kinds of unconstitutional federal spending programs to get themselves elected. (caveat emptor)

Misguided voters then respond to unconstitutional federal candidate campaign promises with “great idea” and effectively abuse their voting power by electing the crooks who then unconstitutionally expand the powers of the already unconstitutionally big federal government to fulfill their campaign promises.

The bottom line is that it is now up to voters to redress their long-time abuse of voting power by doing the following.

Democratic and Republican Trump-supporting patriots need to get ready ASAP to support Trump campaign by primarying ALL state and federal, lawmakers and executives, except for MTG Gaetz (and others?), for the 2024 primaries.

After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.

Exclusive: Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Dumbfounded’ GOP Colleagues Will Not Call for Biden’s Impeachment! (6.10.23)

In fact, consider that, since one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the big, bad federal government to dictate peacetime domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service (most federal domestic policy actually based on stolen state powers imo), the worst problem that the country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of Trump-supporting freshman lawmakers is arguably a delay with mail delivery.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Trump can endorse candidates from lists that patriots who respect the federal government's constitutionally limited powers provide for him, as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments after they win office.

The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.

Patriots, let's not allow ourselves to be fooled for third time in 2024 by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments.

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