The National Center for Policy Analysis features a release from the Fraser Institute on some of the wonderful reasons why we should adopt a health care system like Canada or other socialist nations:
- Universal care only appears to cost less in Canada because public health insurance does not cover many advanced medical treatments and technologies commonly available in America.
- Canadian patients do not get the same quality or quantity of care as American patients -- on a comparable basis, Canadians have fewer doctors, less high-tech equipment, older hospitals and receive fewer advanced medicines.
- Canadians currently wait an average of almost 18 weeks between the time they see their family physician and the time they receive treatment from a specialist.
- Statistics show that among patients who received health-care services in 2005, 11 percent waited longer than three months to see a specialist.
- 17 percent waited longer than three months to get necessary non-emergency surgery.
- 12 percent waited longer than three months to get necessary diagnostic tests.
The report also points out that the Canadian nationalized health care system is financially unsustainable; the cost is growing faster than revenue...and Canadians already have pretty high taxation.
Another NCPA report today points to the high taxation in Britain, another socialized medicine country. The report says British workers are paying $13.10 in taxes for every hour they work. When I lived there in the late 1980s, in addition to wonderful things like being taxed for broadcast TV (they had vans that drove around looking for people watching TV without having paid their TV tax, too) they even had a tax for people who had an outside water faucet for your garden hose.
Socialized medicine? No thanks.
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