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Title: The Dangers of Socialized Medicine by Jacob G. Hornberger, Richard M. Ebeling ISBN: 0-9640447-0-6 Publisher: Future of Freedom Foundation Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Because I don't want to be forced to insure a crack addict
Comment: While the push for the US to adopt a nationalized health care system by left-wing politicians has somewhat quieted in recent years, we are nevertheless headed in that direction. We need only sample growing public dissatisfaction at the inefficiency of HMOs and managed health care, which arbitrarily decide who receives treatment and who does not, to see this. This book, published shortly after Clinton's Soviet-style health care plan was rejected, contains several essays critical of socialized medicine.
The idea that universal health insurance would be less costly than our existing system is absurd. To insure 280 million people -- hundreds of thousands of which are addicted to crack, PCP and black tar heroin; hundreds of thousands of which are Mexican immigrants carrying new strains of tuberculosis -- taxes would have to be raised to astronomical levels. Moreover, with the government providing health care for anyone and his uncle, there would be no reason not to go to the doctor. If you've got a cold, why stay in bed and drink orange juice when you can walk into a hospital and receive professional medical care? In effect, the government would be taking away the incentive to stay healthy.
Great Britain's universal health care system, the NHS, which they adopted in 1948, turned out to be an enormous bureaucracy. The demand for health care instantly skyrocketed, as did the yearly cost of maintaining the NHS, forcing the British government to make massive spending cuts for the NHS. By the mid-seventies, medical instruments were a scarcity in British hospitals, and nearly three-quarters of a million people were on waiting lists. Also, Canada's single-payer universal health care system, trumpeted by liberals as a sensible alternative to our existing system, has kept patients waiting for several months to receive an MRI or heart bypass surgery.
Forcing me to pay high taxes to insure hundreds of thousands of drug addicts and disease-ridden third-worlders isn't "compassion" -- it's stupidity. It's not my responsibility to bring drug addicts out of their stupor -- it's theirs. If they're incapable of doing so, too bad -- I wasn't the one who jammed that crack pipe between their lips. In short, it isn't my responsibility to pay for a total stranger's irresponsibility.
The solution to the public's growing dissatisfaction with America's health care system is capitalism. That way, doctors and hosptials would be free to charge what they thought their services were worth; but they would also face risking losses if they charged more than they thought consumers were willing to pay. A market-driven health care system is what America needs.
Rating: 5
Summary: The case for a complete free market in medicine
Comment: Published by the Future of Freedom Foundation, this slim collection of essays on government intervention in medicine makes an excellent case for a complete free market in health care. Published in 1994, many of the chapters specifically address the horrendous Clinton Health Care Plan, which fortunately never even made it to a floor vote in Congress.
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Title: National Health Care: Issues and Problems in Socialized Medicine by Elling ISBN: 0202302326 Publisher: Lieber-Atherton Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine by Miguel A., Jr., Md. Faria ISBN: 0964107724 Publisher: Hacienda Pub. Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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