[exDemMom]

“Everybody talks about how wonderful Norway’s health care is, and that was my experience until I needed medical treatment for my cancer,” says Hollan, 52.

I look at socialist vs. free market health care coverage as analogous to veterinary medicine for livestock vs. pets. Ranchers want the biggest bang for the buck, so they invest in preventatives like vaccines, but spend very little if an animal develops a more serious disorder. Pet owners, OTOH, care less about the expense and more about a positive outcome, so they are willing to spend much more than the rancher on care for individual animals.

That is socialized medicine: go all out on the minor stuff, but set limits on spending on serious diseases.

[knarf]

A TERRIFIC analogy !

Thanx !

[NativeSon]

That is good analogy on a few levels. In socialism, people are cattle...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I look at socialist vs. free market health care coverage as analogous to veterinary medicine for livestock vs. pets. Ranchers want the biggest bang for the buck, so they invest in preventatives like vaccines, but spend very little if an animal develops a more serious disorder. Pet owners, OTOH, care less about the expense and more about a positive outcome, so they are willing to spend much more than the rancher on care for individual animals.

That is a picture of the relation of the individual to the government vs. the relation of the individual to his family. The family places value in the individual, beyond the numbers. The government bureaucrat places value on his own family, other individuals not so much.