Medical mischief - ( More Socialized Medicine Proposed )

Jewish World Review ^ | September 13, 2003 / 15 Elul, 5763 | Drs. Michael A. Glueck and Robert J. Cihak

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Drs. Michael A. Glueck & Robert J. Cihak

Medical mischief

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Why do human beings co-operate in their own destruction?

The question has been asked many times, about many human disasters - from great republics whose citizens surrendered their liberties - to innocents who walked into gas chambers.

Many answers have been adduced: inability to resist, fatalism, the belief that some emergencies require stern but "temporary" measures. But perhaps the most common reason why people choose slavery is the belief that - despite all the evidence of history and all the force of logic and common sense - they're going to get something out of it: they'll benefit.

In the August 13th issue of the medical journal JAMA, an article appeared that must rank as one of the great historical examples of how people talk themselves into subjugation and disaster. The "Proposal of the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance" is so odious, so evil, and so utterly illogical in so many ways that it's hard to know where to start dissecting it - or to conquer the queasiness sufficiently to get started. These are its main points:

"Access to comprehensive health care is a human right. It is the responsibility of society, through its government, to ensure this right. . . ."

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Doctors are not immune from advocating evil. Many doctors are poor businessmen and administrators and therefore love authoritarian single payer schemes which release them from building practices.