Also from Moonbattery:
The Future of American Health Care?:
It's like having a crystal ball. All you need to do to see our future is look at countries where moonbattery has already triumphed. The only difference is that people in those countries can still escape to America, whereas we will be left with nowhere to go. The latest from Canada, whose socialized medicine we are on track to adopt:
Shona Robertson-Holmes was a mess. She had crushing headaches, insomnia and adrenaline levels so high that she constantly felt as if she had just stepped in front of a speeding bus. And that's not to mention her rapidly deteriorating eyesight.
She headed to her family doctor, who recommended that she see two specialists.
But Robertson-Holmes is Canadian, and her state-provided health care gave her a wait time of four months to see a neurologist and six months to see an endocrinologist. Unable to get an expedited appointment, and with her eyesight worsening, Robertson-Holmes called the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and went in for tests and a diagnosis within a week.
The doctors there told her she had a four-to-six-week window to have a marble-sized tumor on her pituitary gland removed before her vision loss would be irreversible.
Returning home with the diagnosis, the Ontario native was still unable to expedite the surgery. Three weeks later, she came back to Mayo for brain surgery.
As Van Helsing alludes to in his post, the idea that we would want to follow these backward, socialist utopias off the cliff is absurd.
I'd much rather live in a country where health care is a commodity that can be bought and sold (and therefore guaranteed to be in supply) than in a country where it is a service "given" to the people (wastefully, out of their own tax dollars), where it is guaranteed that demand will always exceed the supply.
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