Yet another compelling reason why socialized *anything* is a bad idea.
From Boortz.com:
“Here’s another little look into our future after Hillary Clinton (or any Democrat for that matter) places our healthcare into the hands of government.
Arlene Meeks is from Canada. In many parts of Canada it would be illegal for you to take your own money and pay for your own health care from a private provider. The Canadian government, you see, wants to maintain its monopoly on health care. It’s all about power. Anyway …. Arlene was visiting her family in California when she needed emergency surgery because her appendix burst. Lucky for Arlene, she was in the United States when this happened and she was able to seek immediate care. But two weeks later, Arlene still hasn’t been transferred back to Canada. She can’t go home. And why not? Because the South Fraser Health Region in British Colombia where she lives has a shortage of ventilated intensive care unit beds. They are saying it is because of the holidays, and it is no surprise that those beds fill up. So … no room for Arlene in the hospital. She has to stay in the U.S. The beds are full because the Liberal government cut acute care beds in British Colombia by 1,300. A report was issued last fall indicating that they are at least 650 beds short … but just like government, nothing has yet to be done.
This is the future of health care in the U.S. … and every vote for a MoveOn Democrats brings this future closer.”
UK news site, The Daily Mail, reports that nearly 400,000 people in the UK have waited over a year for NHS (UK’s National Health Service) treatment. Additionally, 713,513 patients needing elective treatment were waiting over 36 weeks and 387,152 of them waited over a year. This doesn’t sound like anything close to efficient. Why would anyone in their right mind ever think that government run healthcare would be better than private solutions?
