Hypocrisy and stupidity form the bulk of my expectations where politicians are concerned, and Canadian Premier Danny Williams only reinforces that with his recent trip to the U.S. for heart surgery. He says of his decision that “I have the utmost confidence in our own health care system in Newfoundland and Labrador…” but that he ultimately headed for the U.S. because he wanted “…somebody who’s doing this three or four times a day, five, six days a week.”
See, there’s a reason the U.S. has doctors who specialize like that, bub, and it’s because of the limited degree to which market forces still have any play in medicine. When you let government control health care, you get longer lines for crappier care with less specialization and lower overall quality. It’s amazing how people living in all those great countries with wonderful socialized medicine come to the U.S. for life and death care. Of course, not everybody can do that, but that just shows how some animals on the great socialist farm are a little more equal than others, right Mr. Williams?
nobody ever said that the health care system in th u.s. is not great if you are say, a prime minister. what the rest of the world is laughing at, is calling a normal basic health care system, which every civilized nation has in one form or the other, “socialism” or even “fascism”.
I think you’re missing the point. The whole reason that hypocrite has to come here for his medical care is precisely because the U.S. system has produced doctors who specialize in the procedure he needed. And the only reason the U.S. system has produced such specialization is because of the degree to which market forces still reign. Assuming that what you mean by “normal basic health care” is that it’s subsidized/enforced by government, that’s precisely what will wreck the U.S. system. And that’s no laughing matter.
The Idea that somebody like Lutz is omniscient is what gets these cultists into trouble in the first place. Managing the lives of millions doesn’t make them gods, just fanatical freaks that become a danger to society.
The same people advocating ‘power to the people’ in the US are the ones with gold plated congressional healthcare packages or Union packages just as good derived from government blowjob favors. Of course they would just the excuse that the US needs better coverage, when they themselves are already covered by their own corruption engineered pensions.