A key feature of socialized medicine is institutionalized efforts to suppress demand. The socialists think that if they can quash demand for particular services with regulatory hurdles then it’s a service you don’t need.
Yes. It’s their way of making Socialized Medicine ‘affordable’. All workers pay an extra 15% of their wages in taxes and in return, get ‘free’ health care. Except when the Government decides you don’t get the care you need. Your life isn’t worth the cost of the care. And then you have no where to turn to get care. Remember when Obama promised more preventative medicine?? Socialized Medicine only works well for healthy people. Once you have a chronic disease, you better hope the Government decides your life is worth the cost of the care you need.
And one more thing......people say ‘if they won’t give me the test or care that I need, I will just pay for it myself’. Medicine doesn’t work that way. To get any lab test, you will need a requisition from a doctor. And doctors have already been told that they will be fined if they order tests ‘not warranted’ by the Government health care overseers. You cannot just go to any doctor you choose or have any care that the Government doesn’t authorize. We are in a boatload of trouble.....most Americans don’t yet realize what Socialized Medicine is really like. Big Media has been lying to the general public for years about the ‘benefits of Socialism, especially Socialized Medicine’.