Very good piece. I read a few paragraphs yesterday. Thanks for putting it in front of me again - definitely worth reading the whole thing.
FTA:[blockquote]Take cancer as one example. Compared to the U.S., breast cancer mortality is 9% higher in Canada (according to the government statistics of each country), 52% higher in Germany and 88% higher in the United Kingdom (according to studies published in Lancet Oncology). Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in Britain.
Those in need of timely care from specialists are better off in the U.S. Drawing on several peer-reviewed studies, Dr. Scott Atlas of the Stanford University Medical Center notes that patients who need knee and hip replacement, cataract surgery, and radiation treatment wait months longer in the United Kingdom and Canada than in the United States.[/blockquote]
This is all so undeniably true, the tards don't even try to refudiate* it. Instead, they judge the success or failure on a completely different criteria: how many people have equal access to the "system". They ignore the reality that the vast majority of people have fast, unfettered access to the best health care in the world. They focus on the fact that the poor access the system through a different payer portal - and that the lower middle-class is burdened with paying at all - and they call it "injustice". They would prefer that everyone (but the elite, of course) access the system through the same payer portal as the poor, even if it means sacrificing the excellence that the vast majority now receives.
And that's just the reasoning of the "true believers". The REAL reason this is being shoved down our throats is to once and for all enslave the citizenry to the state.
Their position is completely immoral, and destructive. And as we can see by the efforts of other health care entitlement countries to dismantle their systems, their position is completely untenable. Yet they push forward. Can there be any doubt but that their intention is to destroy the health care system for all?
*It's in the dictionary now.