Re: Socialized medicine doesn't work
- From: Alan Lichtenstein <arl@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:49:09 -0400
mpautz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jul 27, 9:05 am, Robin T Cox <nom...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:00:42 -0700, PJ O'Donovan wrote:
How Socialized Medicine Doesn't Work
Why do US opponents of a proper National Health Service always refer to it
as 'socialized medicine'?
We never hear about a 'socialized police force' or a 'socialized fire
department', or a 'socialized military'. So why 'socialized medicine',
when public health is surely of as much importance to everyone?
You stated, ",,,,,, PROPER National Health care..."
What makes you think that National Health Care will be "proper"? Read
the article! Here is a quote:
"The survival rate for prostate cancer is 81.2% here, yet
... 44.3% in England - a striking variation. "
In Canada the MEDIAN wait for hip or knee replacement is 67 weeks!
The MEDIAN wait for diagnostic MRI is 10.8 WEEKS!
The "real" MRI wait is actually longer, but the REAL figure is
disguised. Since the wait is so long, many doctors aren't even
scheduling MRIs. If they were, the wait would be even longer!
The answer to your apparent objections is simple. In the countries you cite there is 100% coverage. In the United States, with our significant number of uninsured, our coverage is 65%. Obviously, with more people using the facilities statistics will reflect that, both in survival rates and in wait times. What your statistics don't reflect is the number of uninsured people who expire from prostrate cancer, who do not have access to health care. I'm certain that if the entire universe was included in those statistics, our results would not be as rosy as you seem to think.
Fact remains, that the waits to receive service reflect only the problem of the need for increased providers and facilities, nothing more. If you wanted to make any charge that could possibly stick against those countries, it's that they aren't moving fast enough to expand their Health Care facilities. Here, we wouldn't have the problem to the extent that it exists elsewhere, as now that the insurance companies have effectively reduced the income of doctors, the AMA would have no objections to massive building of new medical schools, as a government program is more likely to result in an increase in physician income. Without their opposition, which was a significant impediment in the past, and given our national resources, we would likely not suffer the problems evidenced elsewhere, but would be able to provide universal health care at the highest benefit level possible.
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