What’s Wrong With Socialized Medicine?
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How did we ever get the general idea that Socialized Medicine is a bad thing? How did the AMA, Big Pharma, and now Big Insurance get such a stranglehold on the health of this country?
Let’s look at some facts:
1. Some form of Socialized Medicine is the health system.in every industrialized country.
2. We pay over twice as much as any of those countries per person for our healh system. We should have better health statistic, but we rank way below all those countries, even some third world countries.
3. All of our products have a built in cost of health insurance that makes us less competitive. This is also a factor in large corporations going overseas to manufacture.Yes, wages may be lower as well, but a lower cost of health care increases their profit.
4. Small business is often crippled by having to provide health insurance for their workers. Since small business is at the heart of US prosperity, Socialzed Medicine would greatly benefit all such.
5. The VA system is a form of sociaized medicine, and the cost per person is much lower than the “insurance based” system, and the better care patients get is also a fact. (I know as I am a veteran getting that care.)
One of the arguments used is “Just ask a Canadian, they all hate their system”. I’ve asked well over 100 Canadians, and dozens of other people in other countries with Socialized Medicine. Most will gripe about their health system, just as GI’s gripe about food or whatever. However, ask the RIGHT question as I have, “Would you trade your system for the one in the US?” The answer, almost 100% of the time is a resounding “NO way!”
The advantages are obvious - lower cost and better overall health. Not to mention the 42 million people without health insurance that drag down those health statistics and cost us more overall.
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