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Nationalized Healthcare
Category: Current Events, Liberalism, PoliticsGovernment control over services never works and has consistently proven it limits personal choices, breaks the bank, limits supplies, and restricts entrepreneurship and research. When medical services are limited by government, the results are deadly. Universal health care as it exists in Canada, Britain, and Michael Moore’s Cuba are health care scheme models for American liberal politicians. The truth of the matter is national health care has consistently proven not to work and has failed at every attempt it’s implemented in the real world.
An opponent of nationalized health care recently presented the following question which further convinced me we should never allow politicians to nationalize health care in this country. The pundit asked the following question.
If you were given only 4 hours to live unless your parcel of medicine arrived on time; would you have the medicine shipped by the United States Postal Service or the privately owned United Parcel Service?
Think about that question the next time you’re standing in line growing older by the minute at the United States Post Office.
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That is a great question! I think everyone should think of socialized healthcare in that aspect. Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried. I don’t understand why the dems think it will work here….
AMEN! You’re right on…too bad all the blockheads like the sound of Hillary, Barack, Pretty Boy Edwards and the gang cooing about national health care.
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If UPS were bogged down delivering grocery store circulars and Val Paks to every residence on a street they wouldn’t be nearly as efficient.
Our military is nationalized so is our air traffic control. Would you really want them privatized? I was having dinner at a restaurant on 6th st. in Erie on Friday night whent he power went out because a car hit a pole on 38th St!!! Why such a big outage over such a minor event? Because of the deregulation and privatization of the electric companies. It’s all about the profits. For Penelec crisis management is cheaper than routine maintenance and repair. The REC in Crawford County doesn’t have nearly the outages Penelec does.
Our police, while not nationalized, are socialized. Do you really want to go back to when they weren’t? To a time when the Pinkerton’s and the Pennsylvania Coal and Railroad Police could frame innocent people just because of their ethnicity or political affiliation?
Sean,
Specious arguments all. None apply well to health care.
For one, the police don’t rely heavily on research and development. Neither does the military–except to the extent that it relies on private companies for the innovation they need to advance. As for electric companies, indeed all utilities, there has been a serious lack of advancement in technology all around. I could just as easily assign the blame for this to years of government control as you assign blame for outages to deregulation. We seem to have just as many facts to support each assertion.
The police don’t rely on r&d? Then why aren’t they still walking around shaking wooded rattles and hitting people in the head with slap jacks while they light gas lanterns? The police force I was on had a helicopter and FLIR equiped cars.
Community based policing and COMSTAT make heavy use of computers and specially developed software. There is plenty of R&D in law enforcement, you just might not know about it.
Ask any pediatrician or family healthcare practioner if they don’t see the same 10-15 ailments over and over again. Fall….cold, flu, ear infections, pink eye. Winter….bronchitis, pneumonia. very little R&D there.
The VA is a form of nationalized healthcare for a limited clientele. All in all it works very well. For the most part I have had nothing but good experiences with the VA.
What about the other countries with nationalized healthcare? Italy, France, Ireland, the Scandinavian countries. Our family was recently in Italy. My daughter developed a UTI. We went to the FREE clinic for tourists, (which was in a 600 year old formal papal estate and staffed by the hottest female doctor I have ever seen) got a prescription for antibiotics, which we filled at a pharmacy for a couple of Euros. Total time-45 minutes! On foot.
Sean,
What the hell does “routine maintenance and repair” have to do with a car hitting a pole? I think “crisis management” works quite well in that case. Do you maybe want to “regulate” driving? Stay put of my pockets!
A car hitting a pole and taking out a single transformer should only blackout a couple of blocks for a couple of hours, not most a of a decent sized city. If all of the switching relays and safeties were updated and working properly it would have confined the power outage to a much smaller area.
With the privatization of most of PA’s electric utilities they are more concerned with immediate profit. Instead of rolling any profit back into the untility as the REC does Penelec’s profits line the pockets of investors. The many restaurants, bars, nightclubs that had to shut down, ON A FRIDAY NIGHT lost out as did the municipality which lost out on the tax revenue.