First read this, and then read what follows.

Yes, Socialized Anything is Bad

Why is that? What I offer is opinion based on human nature, and the nature of business. Who is going to question that most doctors earn a decent living. Specialists earn an even better living (i.e. oncologists, nephrologists, etc.). Who is going to argue against the old adage, "you get what you pay for?" Why wouldn't that also be true in health-care?

It is true. While the system in Canada, for all intents and purposes, works well for that country, it hasn't worked anywhere else it has been tried. The other huge variable in Canada is the accessibility of health-care in the United States for Canadian citizens. Yes, they can easily hop the border, and get treated. In fact, it happens quite frequently. The United States is one of the least healthy nations, but has some of the very best medical treatment.

Blame Everyone, but Me

The lazy folks who have no health-care have a sense of entitlement. Don't believe me? Wait in a welfare line once or twice, and just listen to some of the complaining that goes on while waiting. There are people that use the welfare system as a crutch until they are able to stand on their own again. That's a good thing. The rest -- the majority -- simply want the handout because they don't need to motivate themselves to do better if they can get something for nothing. Their "job" is to wait in line once a week.

With this sense of entitlement comes the attitude that they deserve the very best just like people that earn a good living. Sorry, that's not how it works. I won't go into a diatribe about these whiny ne'er-do-wells. Suffice to say that there are a lot of them, and most of them could do much better if they actually cared, and actually tried. But why bother? They'll vote for Hillary Clinton, or Barak Obama and get the best for free. (Nothing is free, you see, you'll be paying for them.)

If you try to introduce a system like Canada's here in the United States, what you'll get is a dumbing down of the excellent service we get now. My father has cancer, and it's quite true that you get what you pay for. You have to care enough to ask the questions, and you have to search for the right doctors. The really good doctors spend a lot of time on their patients. They're also quite a bit more expensive. That's not to say the other doctors aren't great doctors. They still offer the best treatment, but it's a lot more hands-off. The expensive doctors will be proactive, which is important with cancer.

My mom and dad have worked very hard all of their lives for what they have. They have never, ever -- even in the hardest of times -- taken government hand-outs. To them, such things are a poison to the soul. They encourage laziness (they lived with family for a while, and it did encourage laziness). Having to stand on their own, they made their way. And now, after all of that hard work, their reward is that they can have the best health-care. They've also raised two children that have the same opportunities. They told us we have to make our own way. No one owes us anything. Since we are a minority, we must do things our own way so we can be taken seriously. We have never expected special treatment due to our minority status. We loathe that there are hiring quotas. Why? Because it encourages laziness. It teaches that sense of entitlement. It is also too easily taken to litigation. Lawsuits with nominal payoffs that make lazy people who need only sue for some income.

We are in two minorities. First, we are in a racial minority. Second, we are in the minority because we believe people must take responsibility for their own lives. There is no-one else to blame.

If you don't have health-care, why are you still employed somewhere where no health-care insurance is offered? If people were more selective about their employment (as we were, and we had to start out where everyone else did -- Fast food, retail, etc.), then more employers would offer health-care insurance so they could attract better employees. (This is kind of moot, since they'll hire illegal aliens instead who could care less; but, that's for another discussion.)

Socialized medicine can't work here because the government would have to regulate payment to doctors, and this treatment would go only to the lowest bidders. Doctors that cannot keep their own patients would be the only ones signing up (save for the rare philanthropist doctor). Well, you can get crappy health-care now; why bother changing when that change isn't really a change at all. Oh, because it makes politicians and idiot-non-thinkers feel all bubbly that there's a regulation on crappy health-care. I think these non-thinkers should be the first in line for their free treatment. I'm pretty sure these crappy doctors might be able to correct their recto-cranial inversions (or maybe I'm overly optimistic).

Blame Canada

No, not really. Their system seems to work for them because just south of them is the best medical care available. I wish there was a cure for stupid. I've heard enough about our health care situation. I've spent the last month in a hospital (because my dad is in the hospital for acute renal failure). I've talked to a mixture of people. The ones that have no insurance are being taken care of on the same floor, by the same doctors, and the same nurses as my dad. The uninsured are sitting next to my dad on the same dialysis equipment. There isn't the "po' folks" dialysis machine from 1950 for them. They go through the same CT scans, MRIs, and X-Rays that my dad goes through. These uninsured folks are given three meals a day from the same cafeteria as my dad. They're getting the same pain-killers, antibiotics, and IVs as my dad.

What they aren't getting is a bill from an insurance company.

Seems like an okay system to me. (remove the 1s (ones) from the address).