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Originally Posted by RichieLion
The U.K. has begun to ration surgeries in an attempt to cut costs and are denying applicants hip and knee replacements, cataract surgeries, tonsillectomies, varicose vein procedures, children's ear procedures. Next on the list of procedures to be strictly curtailed are operations in gastroenterology, gynecology, dermatology and orthopedics.
When the government is in control of our healthcare, and you couple that with their obsession to spend money in other areas for their own political benefit, it is patently predictable as to what programs our "representatives" will cut when they're looking for funding, and see your individual needs as "not serious enough" to warrant "new spending". They will, and are now in the U.K. showing us how the government will treat the needs of an individual in light of the other programs they wish to fund.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...s-2327268.html |
Your argument is a syllogism. Under Cameron, British National Health was bound to start rationing care. Why? He doesn't like it and doesn't want to pay for it.
Imagine the social safety net under President Rand Paul...now don't blink! If the social safety net had it's funding slashed and started to fail is that the fault of the safety net or the natural result of Mr. Paul's election? To blame it on the safety net is an incorrect inference.
The model of a successful single payer system is France. Check WHO statitics. It's cheaper than our system on a per capita basis, everyone is covered, it offers cutting edge technology (when needed), and the French love it (and the French rarely love anything but themselves or a girlfriend on the side).
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