One of the “benefits” that are promised to come with socialized healthcare is that the people won’t have to worry about being without insurance and thus healthcare unless there is government run healthcare that is provided “free” to everyone. Thus, if a person comes down with cancer, breaks a bone, or runs out of condoms during a 24-hour orgy marathon, the state will be there to take care of them, right?
Of course, the reality of the situation is that healthcare will be rationed. With a Canada-style single payer system, seeking help if the state can not adequately provide will be illegal. Will the rationing be used to pay for a person suffering from late-stage cancer, a person who has been physically maimed with bones broken, or will it be used to pay for enough contraceptives for Sandra Fluke to sleep with all of Lichtenstein (twice)?
Pro-tip: If you ain’t the skank sexually profligate individual needing the birth-control, chances are you will be pushed aside and made to wait in the hope that you die before the state has to deal with you.
Far fetched? It’s already happening in the U.K., where thousands upon thousands of patients are forced to wait more than nine months for treatment in a hospital, and where thousands of eye patients are going blind unnecessarily waiting for their “right” to healthcare to be given to them. The British National Health Service (NHS) even goes so far as to kill off its own to save a few bucks.
Of course, those who do receive “healthcare” are often denied treatment and forced to die horrible and painful deaths, via the “Liverpool Care Pathway,” where they suffer like “battery hens.”
When “rights” become but a dispensation of the state, you only have a “right” to what Leviathan graciously allow you to have…
Updated to strike the word “skank” and replace with “sexually profligate individual.” Wouldn’t want to upset any “sexually profligate individuals” who so need to have their sexual appetites subsidized that the state infringes on the 1st Amendment religious rights of others, yes?
I was doing my one man show at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland this summer and my friend’s dad was in town on vacation. He had an accident and needed emergency surgery on his retina. The surgery was performed at an NHS hospital immediately which saved his vision in that eye. The cost? $O.
That’s not a free lunch. It’s how a civilized society demonstrated basic human decency and hospitality to guests.
Your inflammatory declamations against the NHS seem profoundly ill informed to me. You can’t just read the Daily Mail and repost every horror story you read in there without actually speaking to real residents of the UK who tend to be fiercely protective of the NHS.
Universal healthcare doesn’t work. Right. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the country’s in which they have it, the life expectancy is longer, their infant mortality is lower, etc. etc. And they spend half as much as we do. But yikes!!! Make a 1%er wait in line for an elective surgery and it’s a sign of the Apocalypse.
No serious proponent of Universal Healthcare in America is asking for a free lunch. Where just asking for a lunch where we don’t have to pay extortion fees to parasites who do nothing but profit from human misery. Insurance companies provide no service, they provide nothing. They are inefficient, wasteful, and deadly. And their existence has nothing to do with “free market” economics. Adam Smith, the great Scottish father of economics, would be happy to see them go and would be proud of his people’s securing healthcare into the domain of the public good.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the country’s in which they have it, the life expectancy is longer, their infant mortality is lower, etc. etc. And they spend half as much as we do. But yikes!!! Make a 1%er wait in line for an elective surgery and it’s a sign of the Apocalypse.
Your friend’s Dad was lucky. Many others are not so lucky and get the short end of the stick. Not just in the U.K. (nor not just in the Daily Mail), but in other countries with socialized systems, the waits are often quite long for those with serious diseases or conditions.
Sure, an injured eye or a broken bone that can be easily fixed is “free,” but that “free lunch” comes at the cost of not having quality healthcare when one’s life is seriously on the line.
If you really want to compare quality, look at how people with serious diseases like cancer fair: In the United States, the uninsured tend to do better in many cases then those in countries with “free” healthcare!