Doctors and nurses said the 'grim' results undermine the 'myth' that front line services are being protected and warned they were just the 'tip of the iceberg'.
And this is PRECISELY what America has to look forward to under Obamacare.
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Don’t worry folks. You can still get free health care in Cuba.
A very good argument that can be made in Britain, if not Canada, is that if anyone is willing to *pay* for their health care, they can get what they want from private doctors, which are legal in Britain, if not Canada.
So, for every NHS health horror you hear, just remember that if they wanted *better* care, they could get it. It’s all a matter of priorities.
It was pointed out that in the US, many counties offer free health care to the poor, based on how much money that county wants to shell out for health care for the poor. Yet though it is voluntary, with the payer and the beneficiary, it is generally better than the British mandatory system.
Coming Soon to a Death Panel Near You.
One of the problems in the Canadian health care system is that hospitals have very little idea what many treatments actually cost. They have an inadequate internal “market” price system & often rely on rather crude estimates based on average, rather than marginal costs. Some procedures are under-priced, others grossly inflated. For instance, why should a bed in a recovery unit cost over $1000/day; when you wouldn't be charged more than $100/day for equivalent accommodation in an equivalent hotel, with room service? If you're receiving less than the average amount of nursing care; you're (or, in Canada, the government) being overcharged to cross-subsidize patients, who need a lot of attention.
A lot of this cross-subsidization is deliberate; as hospitals game the system, by charging whatever they can get away with, to make up for losses they sustain by providing other services below costs (because of the government-imposed rate schedule).
This is the healthcare system the leftists want to bring to America. If they think I’m going to accept this kind of government control in America they can think again!