February 18, 2020
The Propaganda of Single-Payer Healthcare
The attraction of universal healthcare (Medicare For All) should be obvious -- it is all about receiving care for little or no money and not the quality of healthcare one receives. If one simply scans the Internet long enough, an article with anecdotal stories extolling the virtues of Canada’s universal healthcare model can be found that paints a lovely picture (my infant son spent a week in intensive care and it only cost us a gift basket!) but even if the anecdotes are true, does that mean that the United States should follow the example of Canada or the U.K. and implement a single-payer healthcare system? That would be an extraordinarily bad idea, for several reasons.
Nobody is saying that the U.S. healthcare system is perfect, but the socialists never talk about one of the best ways to fix the current system—tort reform. Sleazy lawyers have driven up the cost of malpractice insurance and forced doctors to order unnecessary medical tests in order to avoid expensive...(Read Full Article)
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