Most participants in the healthcare debate have NEVER SEEN AND EXPERIENCED socialist healthcare in action even though some aspects of this cancer have been metastasizing within the U.S. system for decades.
Two countries stand out for having single-payer healthcare systems as sought by Obama and Hillary: Japan and the UK.
Go to Japan, experience the overcrowded, unionized public hospitals, with patients waiting for hours to see the great doctor for 3 minutes, then wait for another hour to make the co-payment in cash.
Japanese doctors frankly acknowledge that Japan is years behind on sophisticated treatment techniques because the socialist health culture prizes mediocrity and blind centralization and discourages innovation.
Note that when billionaires or movie stars in Asia get sick, they NEVER get treatment in Japan.
Or go to England, visit one of the filthy, run-down National Health Service hospitals, be maltreated by surly, untrained staff, join a two year waiting list for replacement of an excruciatingly painful hip joint. If you have cancer and choose to pay for a “non-approved” cancer drug to save your life, ALL treatment will be paid for.
To be sure, the UK still has a small but lucrative private sector treating billionaires, Arab oil sheiks and families of Labour politicians, similar to the systems for providing WESTERN standards of care for party oligarchs in the old communist countries.
Count on Obama and Hillary quietly setting up an elite care system for themselves and their Beltway buddies when the rest of us have been herded into union-hell DMV-care.
