Single Payer Sucks

Hillary Clinton is making news with her new single payer health care system. It has been dubbed HillaryCare II. It is nothing more than a socialist takeover of your healthcare. You think single payer works better.

You are wrong.

First, it is ludicrous to think the system is free. Each citizen is forced to pay for his neighbors’ medical care in the form of high taxes. (As a percentage of GDP, total taxation is 28 percent higher in Canada than in the United States.) The government, rather than individuals, then decides how that money is spent.

First, the government takes part of your property and gives it to someone else. You have to understand that that is what is happening on the most basic level. You put your time and effort into work, which produced money. That is YOUR money. Now, here comes the government. They say, “Well, you have money, and they need health care, so we’ll just take that from you in order to give them what they need.” If I were to do that, it would be called theft.

There was a time when charity was used to pay for the health care of poor people. Hospitals had fund raisers and charity events to do this. That way, no one was forced to give.

Even worse, in the name of “equal access” the government generally forbids patients from purchasing medical services outside of its system. Canadian law makes it difficult or impossible for citizens to spend their own honestly earned money on medically necessary care for themselves or their loved ones, even when both the doctor and the patient are willing.

Well, now that we have HillaryCare II, there really isn’t any reason to license doctors who don’t participate in the program. Now if you want to get health care, you have to turn to the government. And the government screws almost everything up.

To control costs, the government restricts access to crucial medical services via infamous waiting lists. This imposes a second, hidden, cost on patients: their time.

According to the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute, “Canadian doctors say patients wait almost twice as long for treatment than is clinically reasonable, . . . almost 18 weeks between the time they see their family physician and the time they receive treatment from a specialist.”

Because of the waiting lists, mortality rates for treatable conditions such as breast cancer and prostate cancer are significantly higher in Canada than in the U.S. A Canadian woman who discovers a lump in her breast might wait for months before she receives the surgery and chemotherapy she needs, with the cancer cells multiplying rapidly as each week goes by. If she lived in the United States, she could receive treatment within days.

This tax on time is especially cruel because the burden falls hardest on the sickest patients, i.e., those with the least time to spare.

You have to understand the loss of freedom involved in government run health care. You will lose choice involved in getting better. While America’s health care system isn’t the best, it isn’t flawed because of a lack of government intervention, but because of government intervention. As normal with liberals, rather than see the programs and regulations as causing the problems, they want more programs and regulations.

It will just make the problem worse. The free market is the only solution to our health care problems. Set the system loose in a free market and watch it blossom. Suffocate it under government bureaucracy, and watch more than the program die.

The skyrocketing health care expenses have induced many to the idea of working from home part time to meet the costs. The home business activities allow employees to work from home instead of waiting to find a right job and thus worsening their financial footing. Many of the employers have recognized this home business opportunity which is not possible with traditional employment. A crop of such companies has emerged that can help in financing home business to produce legitimate revenue generation for those who work at home and put their potential to use.