President Obama is pulling out all the stops to stuff his socialist ideas for change down the nation’s throat. He hides his true intent - single payer healthcare - with excuses, obfuscations and outright lies (the government option is only meant to “keep insurers honest”). He has tasked his minions to report dissenters to the White House and threatened his fellow Americans to “get out of the way” if they don’t support his radical agenda.
As only a community organizer can, the President does not view the $2.4 trillion U.S. healthcare industry as the great engine of well-being and prosperity that it has been for the last 50 years, but as some sort of money hungry devil that must be subjugated and coerced into submission. Obama sees evil in the removal of a child’s tonsil and greed with every MRI … and he wants to control it all.
Because of his socialist sympathies and lack of real world life experience, Comrade Obama is unable to appreciate the extraordinary benefits we receive as a nation as a direct result of our free market healthcare system.
Treatment of chronic disease in the U.S. is among the best in the world. Germany, with single payer healthcare, has breast cancer mortality rates an astonishing 88% higher than the U.S. They have similarly inexcusably poor survival rates for other chronic conditions including prostate cancer, Alzheimer's, and kidney disease. Germany may have universal healthcare, but U.S. has much shorter waiting times for hospital admissions and far greater access to preventative medicine like mammograms and colonoscopies. In situations where a single day can mean the difference between life and death, Germans are forced to wait months to see an Oncologist.
No centralized healthcare system can match free markets when it comes to rapid implementation of critical new technologies
In true Marxist fashion, government run healthcare often sacrifices individuals to benefit the collective. In the UK the life saving kidney cancer drug Sutent is not covered because of its high cost; as a consequence, UK kidney cancer patients die 50% faster than those in the U.S. Other effective, but expensive medications including Lucentis, Tyverb, and Aricept are also not available in the UK leading to appalling health outcomes for affected patients.
No centralized healthcare system can match free markets when it comes to rapid implementation of critical new technologies. In the U.S. we have 27 MRI machines per million people compared to only 6 in Canada. While the Canadian healthcare oligarchy was busy debating how few MRIs to provide their fellow countrymen, entrepreneurial physicians and healthcare groups throughout the U.S. purchased the machines as they saw fit and established hundreds of businesses to profit from its use (Ayn Rand would be proud). As a result, most Americans can get an MRI within a few days while the average wait time in Canada exceeds 4 months.
Obama’s intention to divert hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare to pay for the public option will have devastating consequences for the elderly. He has offered no explanation on how the system can provide the same level of services to ever increasing numbers of seniors with a lot less money. Obama uses the less is more argument when he opines on Medicare, which is disgraceful - How exactly does Granny benefit by not getting the hip replacement surgery she desperately needs?
Health care innovations, Drug research, Strength of the U.S. healthcare-industrial complex
The strength of the U.S. healthcare-industrial complex is without equal: 8 of the world’s top 10 best selling drugs are produced by American companies, the top 5 U.S. hospitals alone handle more clinical drug trials than any other single nation and, of the 10 most important healthcare innovations over the past 30 years, 8 were developed right here in the U.S. All of these accomplishments were possible because we don’t let government bureaucrats tell us how to run our medical system.
Every member of society receives tremendous benefits from our free market collection of hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and millions of individuals making their own decisions every day regarding the future of healthcare.
It is patently absurd to think that arrogant Obama and his self-serving socialist agenda could do any better.
