John Stossel takes a no-nonsense look at the double speak going on around the "health-care" mugging/debate going on.
When our administration talks about spending smarter... cutting costs... etc, etc, etc... what they are talking about is cutting care... this so everyone can have the same lousy non-care, instead of having the greatest health care system in the world today... or ever has been in history.
full article here
"Better" Health Care?
By John Stossel
President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch.
In England, health care is "free" -- as long as you don't mind waiting. People wait so long for dentist appointments that some pull their own teeth. At any one time, half a million people are waiting to get into a British hospital. A British paper reports that one hospital tried to save money by not changing bedsheets. Instead of washing sheets, the staff was encouraged to just turn them over.
Obama insists he is not "trying to bring about government-run healthcare".
"But government management does the same thing," says Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute. "To reduce costs they'll have to ration -- deny -- care."
"People line up for care, some of them die. That's what happens," says Canadian doctor David Gratzer, author of "The Cure". He liked Canada's government health care until he started treating patients....
When our administration talks about spending smarter... cutting costs... etc, etc, etc... what they are talking about is cutting care... this so everyone can have the same lousy non-care, instead of having the greatest health care system in the world today... or ever has been in history.
full article here
"Better" Health Care?
By John Stossel
President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch.
In England, health care is "free" -- as long as you don't mind waiting. People wait so long for dentist appointments that some pull their own teeth. At any one time, half a million people are waiting to get into a British hospital. A British paper reports that one hospital tried to save money by not changing bedsheets. Instead of washing sheets, the staff was encouraged to just turn them over.
Obama insists he is not "trying to bring about government-run healthcare".
"But government management does the same thing," says Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute. "To reduce costs they'll have to ration -- deny -- care."
"People line up for care, some of them die. That's what happens," says Canadian doctor David Gratzer, author of "The Cure". He liked Canada's government health care until he started treating patients....
posted by XtnYoda at 9:58 AM
1 Comments:
The entire health care debate in this country is a misnomer. People aren't interested in health care. What they are interested in, is being able to see a doctor and get pills for the maladies and diseases that they have brought about themselves and the ones being advertised by the drug companies.
We have a present day generation of people in America, that feel that there are pills for everything and that they should be entitled to them for free.
Along with government funded birth control abortions and government paid for birth to death nanny state benefits.
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