Health care is not a right. My guess is those with these high ideas think we could do it better than UK and Canada.............
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023...uld-worsen-our-existing-health-care-problems/
But Medicare for All would harm and perhaps kill many Americans. Just look at the pain and suffering that England’s version of single-payer, the National Health Service, is inflicting on patients.
The NHS reports that as of November 2022, 2.9 million of the 7.2 million patients referred for treatment waited more than 18 weeks to start treatment. Over 450,000 patients waited more than a year.
The NHS acknowledges that these results do not meet its standards, but it admits that its goal is to ensure that 92 percent of patients wait “no more than 18 weeks.”
NHS emergency rooms also are a disaster. Another NHS report shows that in December 2022, 35 percent of patients were not seen, i.e., had not begun to receive care, within four hours.
The Times of London summed up the grim consequences: “There were 1,600 more deaths than usual during Christmas week. . . . Covid accounts only for a minority of recent extra deaths, focusing attention on ‘compelling’ evidence that the crisis in the NHS is killing hundreds of people a week. . . . Figures from the Office for National Statistics yesterday showed the third consecutive week of more than 1,000 excess deaths.” That means the number of deaths is above the normal average level.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023...uld-worsen-our-existing-health-care-problems/
But Medicare for All would harm and perhaps kill many Americans. Just look at the pain and suffering that England’s version of single-payer, the National Health Service, is inflicting on patients.
The NHS reports that as of November 2022, 2.9 million of the 7.2 million patients referred for treatment waited more than 18 weeks to start treatment. Over 450,000 patients waited more than a year.
The NHS acknowledges that these results do not meet its standards, but it admits that its goal is to ensure that 92 percent of patients wait “no more than 18 weeks.”
NHS emergency rooms also are a disaster. Another NHS report shows that in December 2022, 35 percent of patients were not seen, i.e., had not begun to receive care, within four hours.
The Times of London summed up the grim consequences: “There were 1,600 more deaths than usual during Christmas week. . . . Covid accounts only for a minority of recent extra deaths, focusing attention on ‘compelling’ evidence that the crisis in the NHS is killing hundreds of people a week. . . . Figures from the Office for National Statistics yesterday showed the third consecutive week of more than 1,000 excess deaths.” That means the number of deaths is above the normal average level.
