WA Examiner: The rapid spread of the coronavirus has prompted those who already have been advocating for socialized medicine to argue that the crisis somehow proves them right.
“Our country is at a severe disadvantage compared to every other major country on earth because we do not guarantee healthcare to all people as a right,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has claimed in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
One of his surrogates, David Sirota, tweeted, “Coronavirus is a national security threat to America. The corporate-run, for-profit healthcare system is exacerbating that threat. @BernieSanders‘ Medicare for All plan is a weapon to combat the threat. Pass it on.”
In the midst of a fast-moving virus, in which data are changing every day, and in which governments are taking different reactions in response to that data, it’s difficult to draw any concrete conclusions about whether one type of healthcare system is working better than another. READ MORE
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This is where the numbers you spoke of came from…..
I grew up in a European country and can tell you, in most ways National Healthcare there is no better than we have here. And talking to my friends who still live there, they were no better prepared for the present then we were. That’s the thing the media refuses to tell you.
No, but it would make the death panels much easier.
They say this about every business – government-run would be by people who care. Bull. Governments are referees – they enforce the rules and make sure nobody cheats. Businesses have to compete – and if they cheat, the government is there to put a stop to it. Of course it doesn’t work perfectly – but usually that is because of failure on the government side. But if government is both the referee and the operator, cheating gets covered up, people lose initiative, get sloppy, get lazy. Never, ever works to have government do something that can be done in the private sector.
OT: Florida enforcing homeschooling until May 1. Was hoping it wouldn’t happen but expected it would.
Lately #1 daughter has been indirectly commenting on what a lot of people her age (early 20’s) are thinking about the upcoming election and who they are voting for. In light of her being sent home to work by herself in her lonely apartment,she has already binge-watched all her favorite tee shows and I’m certain there are no new movies she hasn’t already seen. Saturday she came by to pick up all her high school violin sheet music and has rented a violin (she played from K-12, but continually wanted to give it up) for the duration. She’s also been reporting all the meals she’s been cooking for herself, and she’s been economizing by passing up Starbucks and “borrowing” my French press. All-in-all, this has been a VERY GOOD experience for her and, no doubt, a lot of her cohort who have never known a day of want or restriction in their lives.
I couldn’t help myself. In the face of her mild complaining about what she couldn’t find at a grocery store or Costco, I said, “Welcome to socialism, kid.”
Yes it would.
Just not the way you have been thinking it would.
@LCD
Exactly right! And government as both the ref and player kicks the door open for corruption.
The US has a Trump, and Europe doesn’t. Trump has been able to forge relationships with the private sector instead of protecting government fiefdoms, and he pushes through what he believes is right – such as cutting red tape – regardless of the political consequences. Trump also recognizes that much of the deep swamp and most of the Democrats will never like him, so he doesn’t have to play nice.
All in all, I think socialized medicine would be slower to react and more difficult to mobilize by normal politicians. But I believe Trump is the difference maker here.
I wouldn’t trust them to provide toilet paper for all.
“Our country is at a severe disadvantage compared to every other major country on earth because we do not guarantee healthcare to all people as a right,” ~ Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
You mean like China, Italy, Spain, France, etc., all of which have a much higher mortality rate than the U.S.?
Socialized medicine in centralized hospitals run by government trying to deal with a disease THIS contagious?
Get a life – and you’ll keep it precisely because you avoided any hospital. NO ONE has thought out the design of hospitals appropriate for a disease where millions – and maybe billions – get infected.
What’s needed now is distributed, decentralized treatment ready for millions of people. Just like popular “food trucks” delivering food in our cities.
But no one is talking about it – at least in the U.S. Maybe in South Korea.