Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:52:37 PM
I just don't get this socialized medicine thing. It has never worked anywhere on this planet, but people just keep wanting us to try it too. Here is yet another example of why socialized medicine just doesn't work. Read about it
here. Good luck with getting a second opinion when you have socialized medicine, and this guy from England dies of something really dumb.
If the U.S. goes to socialized medicine like England, look for most medical advances to stop. How many new drugs and treatments come from countries with socialized medicine. None to few. We subsidize the rest of the world when it comes to medical advances. In the few places where the free market is allowed to work, the advances are there. Image what we could have had and could have, if we had a true free market in medicine in the U.S. and else where.
Just compare the average community hospital in the U.S. and England. The average U.S. community hospital is always remodeling and building on their campuses. Even ones in poor communities. The average English hospital is outdated and rundown, they don't remodel very often and forget about new contruction. We would lose thousands and thousands of contruction jobs just from socialized medicine stopping the updating of hospital buildings. Because local organizations are the one building local hospitals not a central government.
Local hospitals in Northwest Indiana are on a building boom now. Two complete new hospitals are on the drawing boards. The recently privatized county hospital in Porter County will be building a completely new campus soon. Most of the other hospitals are working on or are planning big projects. Margaret-Mercy in Dyer is finishing a $60 million project, and Community in Munster is just starting a $30 million project. These are just a few of the projects. Folks do you think these projects would be happening with socialized medicine? Not a chance!
Sure it not a perfect system but is far better then anything else out there. We shouldn't have to give up great care for bad medicine because of funding problems. Get the government out of the medical money business and the local organizations will step up and really solve the problems that there are. Most of problems in medicine are caused by the government. It is not the solution by increasing the involvement by it.