Government Healthcare
While visiting her mother, she decided to see a surgeon. One thing led to another and she got reconstructive surgery done by a local surgeon. The surgeon asked her where did she get the mastectomy done. The reason for asking was that the scars were quite bad. In his opinion she got a poor surgical procedure. Not much to say about socialized medicine. Please stop for a second and see if you can locate on a map Lima, Peru. Yes, it is a city in South America.
I have two sisters. Both are physicians so I always get comments when the subject of healthcare is discussed. In this case the surgeon that performed the original procedure might have not been too competent. An example cannot be taken out of context and generalize it to the entire Canadian healthcare system. I agree with this but on the same hand I have heard several stories from my wife’s nice and other Canadians and none promoted socialized healthcare.
Due to work and pleasure I have had the opportunity to travel in Europe several times. Healthcare in England and France are not on the top of anyone’s list. The main reason is due to the fact that (any) government has never and will never be able to compete with the private sector. The reason for this is lack of competition and accountability. Government operations are not for profit and most workers do not care about providing better service. They just want to keep their cushy jobs and hope for an early retirement. This is similar to union workers in the private sector. Because of complacency manufacturing is almost gone from the USA. In general Naive Americans demands high wages and only want to meet their job description. I fully understand this does not apply to every single worker, but it does apply to a huge percentage. If this would not be the case then the US economy would be great and most (quality) products would be labeled “Designed and manufactured in the USA”.
A few days ago some politician finally stated something the Naive American has been saying for a while. Healthcare reform is good and we should move forward with it but not right now. We cannot afford it. The issue is that if we continue the path we have in the past fifty years we will never be able to afford it.
Let’s be realistic. Healthcare will have to come with additional taxes. That is fine if our economy is booming. The fact is that our economy will just continue to shrink due to lack of quality good and services desired by people all over the world. Our automobile industry just gave us a good and costly example of what has and is happening in the USA.
Changes need to be made in order to provide every single Naive American with universal healthcare. On the other side our current healthcare system from physicians to laws need to be revised. But before we do this we need to build on education, science, engineering and manufacturing. Those are the skills and jobs that will enable our society to be able to provide universal healthcare, universal housing, and universal nutrition. Hopefully any of those plans will not work as poorly as universal education K-12 has. The US is currently ranked 15th worldwide in K-12 education. Our government with our career politicians is just doing great.
