Socialized Medicine Is Sicko (Government-Run Health Care NOT The Answer Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 06/21/2007 | Joseph Farah

[ketsu]

Additionally, the high salaries tend to attract the “best and brightest”. If you take away the financial incentive for medical professionals (which offsets the *years* of costly training), you’ll end up with a shortage of healthcare workers and, at the same time, a surplus of people lining up for “free” healthcare.

Not necessarily true. In Japan they have a Doctors and Stewardess dating club because both professions are considered the "top" of the social ladder for men and women respectively. Doctor's wives in Japan don't seem to be lacking in prada goods either.

[carton253]

Best medical care I received was in the Baptist Hospital in Bangkok. Went for a bladder infection. Arrived in the emergency room at 7:57. Told if I waited 3 minutes, it would be treated as a doctor visit and not emergency. Okay.

At 8:00 prompt, was called. Taken to the back, weighed and measured, handed cup, and shown the bathroom.

Returned the cup... told to have a seat while tests were run. Around 8:30 (no later) shown into a room. Doctor - the actual Doctor - comes in, has tests results, goes over them. Gives me three prescriptions.

Nurse takes prescription tells me to go pay. Prescriptions will be filled and waiting.

Present my ticket. Bill is brought up. Total amount $28.00 US dollars. Paid and as I left the area, nurse reappered with the three prescriptions.

In and out under an hour.

I have a 10:00 appointment with American doctor, I am not even shown into the little waiting room until 11:00.

[liliesgrandpa]

The true 500 pound gorillas are lawyers!

The true cost of medical care is inflated thousand of times by all the lawsuits, doctors insurance, and test done to prevent lawsuits.

Also, the high sugar, low fiber, low vitamin and mineral diet that most of us are on, don’t help the problem.

[nyyankeefan]

the 10,000 pound gorilla are all the illegals using the US hospital emergency rooms as out patient clinics!!!!

no insurnace/no pay ....free care no matter what!!!!

of course, if they are refused...your answer with the lawyers/lawsuits kick right in!!!

[TINS]

wow...how christian of you. A real culture of life you’re displaying there.

[LaineyDee]

your answer with the lawyers/lawsuits kick right in!!

Which is one of the major reasons we're now dealing with these issues...

[jabbermog]

Watch yo ass - to use an American saying. I read that some US Senators want to see a free Health and Welfare service for all, from cradle to grave.
I have worked for 25 years, and pay 2 types of tax at the end of each month; income tax and Class 2 National Insurance contributions (the second one finances public healthcare here).
I also voluntarily pay £40 ($80) a month to PPP private health insurance, my Mrs pays the same amount. Neither of us have been unemployed for more than a few weeks in a quarter of a century. Now, do we get a rebate on our NI contributions ? Do we f**k !
Meanwhile some scumbag finishes a 5 year sentence in Lindholme, gets free housing (rent paid), is exempt from all local and national taxes, and recieves about £120 ($240) a week. He may father 2 or 3 sprogs with different women, who in turn will get public housing, weekly money, and free healthcare.
IN 16 or 17 years time those sprogs will have offsring of their own and you will see 3 generations who have never had to earn a penny. Meanwhile my taxes go up and up and up, as I went to College and learned a skill. But of course I forgot people like me come last, even our Conservative Party says they’ll leave this system as it is.

If I was 15 years younger I would emigrate.

[Veto!]

America’s healthcare system is still by far the best in the world. Nothing comes close and most americans know it.

Yes, we have the top doctors, best research, finest hospitals and equipment, etc, etc. At issue is ACCESS to care. But the leftie idiots twist those stats around until it looks like Cuba and other dungeon countries deliver better care.

[Bommer]

My prediction is that sicko isn’t going be anywhere near as big as F911.

Got that right. Opening between Pixar's "Ratatoulle" and "Live Free or Die Hard", "Sicko" Box Office for that weekend is going to make Moore very ill! Can't wait for him to be ignored!

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Milton Friedman had a proposed solution to the USA’s health care. In summary, it provided:
1) Eliminate Medicare and Medicaid;
2) Provide catastrophic coverage for all Americans with a high deductible;
3) The deductible gap would be the individual’s choice based on the free market. Coverage would be more affordable since the catastrophic coverage would be covered by Government.
4) Eliminate government tax and other subsidies for health insurance.

The result would eliminate a huge bureaucracy engaged in price controlling by Medicaid and Medicare. Individuals could shop for medical care like the do for many things on the Internet (not in place when Friedman proposed this). Individuals would have more control.

[Condor51]

Nah, we don't have to throw people in the street to die.

In the 'olden days' (like pre LBJ) there were things called 'Charity Hospitals' where the poor went. But now there's no need for them when the gubmint is picking up the tab at the Mayo Clinic for sore throats and hangovers.

End Medicaid and Charity Hospitals will re-appear.

[Alamo-Girl]

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[newguy357]

If you take away the financial incentive for medical professionals (which offsets the *years* of costly training), you’ll end up with a shortage of healthcare workers

This is not emphasized enough. It is already happening. I know people who have decided to not go to medical school because of already declining salaries, increasing financial liability (lawsuits), and the threat of more of this as an inevitable result of further socialization of medicine. I myself recently withdrew an acceptance to medical school to pursue a more certain, more lucrative career path without as large of a threat of government take over. Who in his right mind would spend ten years and a quarter million dollars to become a government slave?

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