Friday, April 24, 2009

Joys of socialist health care

That's the game plan -- call it competition at first, but tighten the screws until the private insurers leave the market or get forced out. There's no question that this is a debate about rationing to a large degree. All your single-payer systems are rationing systems. It's also a debate about technology and innovation. Because you will not have capital pursuing technology, innovation and science if it's health-care related, because the return on capital won't be there. And these things are so expensive, especially on the pharmaceutical side and the biologic side, that you'll dramatically slow improvements in the quality of health care through science with a single-payer plan. You don't say.

6 comments:

Pepe le Pew said...

You ain't seen nothing yet, baby. All these uninsured people with healthcare ? Scary.

Tecumseh said...

Peu d'idées, mais fixes. Socialized medicine sucks, big time.

Arelcao Akleos said...

Pepe fled France because they bury them by the bucketful when they have to rely on government health care. Ask Diana.
He must really love his children to want that shit inflicted on them.
He could of course ask those hundreds of thousands of Canadians who come down to this country each year, to pay out of pocket to save themselves from the Canadian rationing system, about the Joys of Socialism. But, of course, he won't. His is a fetish of wilfull ignorance cum stupidity. A lethal combination.

Pepe le Pew said...

Pepe fled France because they bury them by the bucketful when they have to rely on government health care.
I don't think so. Matter of fact, whenever I have the option, I get treatment at home. Compare the cost of a dentist in the US & europe and you'll see what i mean.

Nothin' like a ignit wid an opinion.

Arelcao Akleos said...

dentists, your bloody teeth, are what you can come up with? Now that is sad. Yes, dentistry around the world is generally much cheaper than here. Now let's talk about medicine, yes?

Let's see what you resort to when you have a serious bodily illness. [Although it is true that France does lead the world in cutting edge Hoemopathy.]

Of course, should you get what your Socialist heart wants, as part of your "battez les yankees" idee fixe, this nations' health care will be so bureaucratic and rationed as to make it unfit for all but Soros. Then it would make sense for you to go Frenchy and die in a slower ambulance. Then you could die with an ironic sense of Triomphe stamped on your face.

Arelcao Akleos said...

Yes, Hoemopathy. Where Pepez Hilton and Fraud come to a clinic near you.