Re: Obamarama and National Health Care

On Jun 1, 5:38 pm, "Stanley Moore" <smoor...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jun 1, 1:51 pm, "Stanley Moore" <smoor...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



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People are waiting much longer, are receiving lower quality
treatment, and far more of them are being *denied* treatment
altogether. The survival rates are lower in almost every major
category; as is the reported quality of life.

only if you pay attention only to right wing propaganda.

The numbers are clear, Hal - the fact that you don't like them doesn't
make them propaganda.

So how exactly is this better?

it would be better if you understood the truth, and not one fed to you
by the CEOs of insurance, pharms, and medical systems companies that
are making billions a year off the fact that you are too stupid to
understand what a single payer system entails.

You seem to be a little confused about what the word "truth" means.

The numbers are clear. Countries that have adopted nationalized
health care have seen longer waiting periods for treatment, poorer
quality of treatment, and higher instances of people being turned
away. They have also seen lower success rates and lower quality of
life in almost every possible category.

What a single payer system entails is a monopoly for health care. It
entails a massive, inefficient, and completely uncaring bureaucracy
that knows that you have no choice but to accept whatever they decide
you deserve, and when they decide you deserve it.

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It is a dilemma. Is it better for some to have good health care while
others
have little or none? Or is it better for all to have mediocre care? Which
is
best for society. People complain of rationing of health care but we have
rationing now. It is based on cost: those who have insurance get good
care,
those who don't get little or none.

We do know the US pays more for health care which is unevenly distributed
with poorer results by some criteria while Euorpean countries have
universally distributed care which by some measures produces better health
overall for a lesser cost that the US pays. It is a dilemma.

It's not a dilemma at all.

We don't care that some people need to bum rides while others have
whole garages full of supercars do we?  Not in the same way we care
about health care.

Pierre

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I put health care in a somewhat different category than fast cars. To use
your example, this is an instance of rationing on the basis of price which
is what we do for health care. Take care

Yes we do. We do it all the time. The only difference is we get to
make the decision. Under universal care the Government will make the
decisions
--
Stanley L. Moore
"The belief in a supernatural
source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable
of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad

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