So you think everyone should have healthcare? Well, yes they should. But be careful about opening Pandora’s box. Be careful about what you might wish for you may get it.
Imagine that your 86 year old mother has a heart attack and must be taken to the emergency room. Then imagine that when you arrive the hospital is waiting to see if you have private insurance or if you will pay all the costs accordingly. What is this you ask?
Well you see, under most national health care systems treatment is rationed. Doesn’t it make more sense to spend the money perform a triple bypass on a young, virile, male of 27 who may live a productive life for many more years that on an old woman who may very well have another attack and die in just a few months?
Do you really think national health care would waste all that money keeping Terri Schiavo alive? The plug would have been pulled as soon as she was declared brain dead, not allowed to live in a vegetative state for 13 years. And how about that treatment for brain cancer that Ted Kennedy got. Flying town to see a specialist immediately. Think you'd see that under a national health care plan?
And look how well the government manages the veterans’ hospitals. With the government running all the hospitals and looking to minimize costs to what do you think our health care system would degenerate?
Most countries that provide universal health care do so at a high cost which is in fact paid for through high taxes. What, you thought it was free?? What, you thought Michael Moore was telling you the entire truth?
Well you see, under most national health care systems treatment is rationed. Doesn’t it make more sense to spend the money perform a triple bypass on a young, virile, male of 27 who may live a productive life for many more years that on an old woman who may very well have another attack and die in just a few months?
Do you really think national health care would waste all that money keeping Terri Schiavo alive? The plug would have been pulled as soon as she was declared brain dead, not allowed to live in a vegetative state for 13 years. And how about that treatment for brain cancer that Ted Kennedy got. Flying town to see a specialist immediately. Think you'd see that under a national health care plan?
And look how well the government manages the veterans’ hospitals. With the government running all the hospitals and looking to minimize costs to what do you think our health care system would degenerate?
Most countries that provide universal health care do so at a high cost which is in fact paid for through high taxes. What, you thought it was free?? What, you thought Michael Moore was telling you the entire truth?
