Miller Said He Was Reagan Like
Universal health care for kids is like the programs the Soviets put into place? All of Western Europe and Canada are now just like the Soviet Union.
Oberweis compares health care to Soviets
The free market is very good at delivering health care to healthy people, but damn those rational actors, it tends to charge more than most can afford when they aren’t healthy. Rationing by simply a market system results in healthy people getting good health care and unhealthy and old people getting little or no care. Is that what we want?
January 30th, 2006 at
Free market is good at delivering health care across the board. It simply suffers from the same problems that capitalism does – the exceptions to the rule are really glaring and easy to exploit (politically.)
How else would you explain consistently higher rates of survival for serious diseases (cancer etc) in US than in EU and Canada ?
In other words, your average woman in US who was unlucky enough to be diagnosed with breast cancer, has a significantly higher survival rates than women in France or Germany.
The grass will always be greener on the other side of the pond, but perhaps it would be advisable to address these issues before abandoning existing US system.
http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/516669.html
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Study_Compares_U_S__and_European_Survival_Rates.asp