“It costs them a fortune to produce those doctors. That is one reason that they must ration health care.”
I’m sorry, that just makes no sense.
Of course, the EU does not really have a free market economy, so I guess it doesn’t need to make sense.
I trained in England for six months in 1989. It is a completely different system. Students take an aptitude test and apply for medical school. The government decides how many doctors need to be trained. From the time a student enters the system, at 18, he becomes a government employee for life, first as a student, then as a doctor. They finance this system through high taxes and they manage costs by rationing. It is pure socialism. At that time, I said "American's would never tolerate this kind of health care." Eighteen years later, I see that Americans are, in fact, tolerating many of the things that the British patients were going through back then. We actually have the worst of both systems. I am a capitalist. However, my view from the inside is that our system is broken beyond repair. It was killed by Medicare and trial lawyers.
It is bitterly hard for me to make this prediction, but here it is: One way or another, we will have socialized medicine, in the European model, within fifteen years.