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Dead Wait (IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure)
IBD Editorials ^ | June 19, 2009

Posted on 06/19/2009 6:07:23 PM PDT by Kaslin

Reform: As Americans debate who's in control of their health care system, a lot of Britons aren't concerned about how the argument turns out. They're too busy trying to get a hospital room before it's too late.


In Great Britain, where the government's in charge of health care, as many as 1 million people are waiting to get into hospitals at any given time, says the National Center for Policy Analysis.

In Canada, another country where the government metes out care, roughly 900,000 are waiting for hospital beds, the Fraser Institute reports. The New Zealand government says that 90,000 are on hospital waiting lists there.

"Those people constitute only 1% to 2% of the population in those countries," says NCPA President John Goodman, "but keep in mind that only about 15% of the population actually enters a hospital each year. Many of the people waiting are waiting in pain. Many are risking their lives by waiting. And there is no market mechanism in these countries to get care to people who need it first."

President Obama told the American Medical Association last week that "there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well," then said that those who say that he's "trying to bring about government-run health care" are "not telling the truth."

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1 posted on 06/19/2009 6:07:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Look how well Medicare and Medicaid work. It sounds like Barack the Kenyan and his Marxist comrades want all of "the little people" to have to join in the "fun" whether we want to or not.

sarc/

2 posted on 06/19/2009 6:22:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out? Are you scared yet?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

What happen to getting the same health care that he has. I do be leave this was out of his campaign promises


3 posted on 06/19/2009 9:40:18 PM PDT by woodenickel
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