Everyone of the Democrats wants some kind of universal health care that is paid for by taxpayers. They want ever person in this country covered (citizen or not) and they want to ensure that the government has its grubby little hands in the mix from beginning to end. What they want is to be able to make all the decisions for you. Over weight? You don’t get treated. Smoker, no treatment for you. Eat meat, you can’t be treated. Drink alcohol, too bad, so sad. The only people who will get great health care are those in Congress who abuse the military health care system that they claim does not take care of the troops (but there is a private floor just for them).
Michael Moore filmed his little lie about the health care industry and he tried to make it look as if the countries in the world with socialized medicine have it better than we do. I am no film expert so I will not tell Moore how to make movies (though I would tell him to stop) but I do have quite a bit more experience in health care than he does so I can speak to that. In America we do not see the wait times and denials that they have in other countries. Many people from those social Utopias come here for treatment. I have never had a patient who needed cardiac catheterization be denied or wait. They got sent to the cath lab and were treated. Surgeons came in at all hours of the night to operate on people regardless of their status and none were denied because they were fat, smoking, meat eating alcoholics. Michael Moore is wrong.
The cost of care in this country is high because the government is involved in it. Medicare is very expensive and is not a good bargain. They make it look good because none of the administrative costs are included in the program. Those are paid for by taxpayers and not reported so we cannot see how much it really costs. Government is extremely inefficient and if we allow it to take over health care more people will die.
Here is what we will get if the government takes over. A woman from Canada was here on vacation and she suffered a ruptured appendix (a medical emergency) and she was taken to a California hospital where she received all the care she needed including the surgery to correct the problem. She needs to be transferred to Canada, one of the places Moore says has better health care. She is still waiting in California because there are no beds available for her in her home country. Yep, her socialized medicine gurus cut the number of ICU beds so one is not available.
I have transferred patients all over my state and we had to wait for beds in specific hospitals but if we needed an ICU bed we could find one in the state. We could certainly find one in the entire country and when we waited it was not very long.
The fact is, America has the best health care in the world and the delivery would be even better and not cost as much if ambulance chasing lawyers like John Edwards didn’t file frivolous lawsuits or the nannies in Congress did not regulate everything to death. Health care would be cheaper if the government did not mandate unnecessary items and if companies and consumers were free to do business without government intervention.
Michael Moore is a blow hard who does not know his rectum from a hole in the ground and those running for the Democratic nomination only understand socialism. They think they know better than we do how to best run our lives.
If you vote for one of them you will be putting your health at risk.