Posted by
Boomer911 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:50:00 AM
For any of you who frequent this blog, you will notice my condemnation for anything socialistic in nature. The liberals (socialists) plans for universal health care would not be excluded from this execration. What probably frustrates me the most about this whole argument is the left's disdain of comments relating to similar programs in Europe and Canada having not worked the way in which the programs were intended. Given the situations created by these programs, one would think a logical, rational, and reasonable soul would look at the problems of such programs and think twice about implementing them here in the United States, not to mention our own governments penchant for destroying everything it touches. But then again, we are talking about the left.
Everything government touches, it ruins. Take a look at Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, our national education system, and FEMA, just to name a few, and you will see bureaucratic ineptitude from start to finish. The reason is really quite simple why these programs and hundreds more like them have been miserable failures in alleviating the problems of its citizens; the United States government has taken on responsibilities it was not designed to undertake. Our Founding Fathers believed in limited government with little interference into the lives of its citizens. Given the track record of the United States government, why would we entertain the idea of ceding more control and money to them when every other program its has created is either insolvent or close to it? Its clear the left feels "cradle to grave" entitlements should be our future despite our inability to keep up with the rising costs of entitlement programs, such as the ones mentioned above, that we already have. The Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves when they see how close we are to destroying their legacy and accomplishments with foolish notions of "socialistic utopias" and "classless societies". The truth is this line of thinking is dangerous to to our freedoms.
A Canadian woman by the name of Shona Robertson- Holmes is just the latest victim of one of the failed leftist policies her country has implemented in the past decade or so. It seems Ms. Holmes was diagnosed with a tumor but was told the wait to get the tumor removed was going to be over 4 months, leaving her blind. The Politico says it like this:
"Shona Robertson-Holmes was a mess. She had crushing headaches, insomnia and adrenaline levels so high that she constantly felt as if she had just stepped in front of a speeding bus. And that’s not to mention her rapidly deteriorating eyesight.
She headed to her family doctor, who recommended that she see two specialists.
But Robertson-Holmes is Canadian, and her state-provided health care gave her a wait time of four months to see a neurologist and six months to see an endocrinologist. Unable to get an expedited appointment, and with her eyesight worsening, Robertson-Holmes called the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and went in for tests and a diagnosis within a week.
The doctors there told her she had a four-to-six-week window to have a marble-sized tumor on her pituitary gland removed before her vision loss would be irreversible.
Returning home with the diagnosis, the Ontario native was still unable to expedite the surgery. Three weeks later, she came back to Mayo for brain surgery. And she took out a second mortgage to pay for the $100,000 ordeal."
The truth is there are hundreds of cases similar to this from Europe and Canada where they are seeing the real effects of socialized medicine. Many now come to the United States to have their surgeries because the wait time back home is just too long. One other side effect of the socialized health care plans has been the fleeing of quality physicians to more free market systems.
This is just another example of the left going off half cocked without thinking through the repurcussions of such ideas. But this time we have proof from other nations that what they want to implement doesn't really work. Whether its the price of food sky-rocketing or the poor starving to death from the mandated creation of bio-fuels, the left cannot see the forest for the trees. There is a better way to help the people with health care, its just not through another nightmare government program.
Here is a link to the article in The Politico: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11570.html