People from countries that have government run health care come to the United States by the masses every year to receive medical treatment they can’t get anywhere else. Just yesterday (Friday, June 26, 2009) there was a story in the Canadian Press about a critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton, Ontario who was transferred to a hospital in Buffalo, New York after she was turned away for treatment at a local facility.
Why was the girl turned away for treatment? 1) The local facility didn’t have enough beds. 2) Canada does not have the capacity to deal with the demand for neo-natal intensive care for premature births.
In other words, it’s called rationing. And this is what rationing produced – inferior care and a government official who decides whether your specific situation is worthy of receiving care or not.
If America also decides to head down this road of a single-payer system the questions become obvious. Where will these people from all over world go? More specifically, where will Americans go? Unfortunately, the answer is equally as obvious. We’ll all be out of luck. Hope and pray it’s not you or your family who is in desperate need of that care.
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They already do ration, just not in the make believe world a lot of us are still able to live in. Watch any number of the documentaries about how American health care really works for anyone born under less than ideal circumstances and maybe you'll see.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
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