In fact a friend from the UK just told my husband to relax about this new Obamacare. He said it just means that the people who can afford it will get the best doctors and those who are counting on the government for their healthcare will get the leftovers. It’s too bad the bleeding heart liberals don’t think their actions through all the way to a logical conclusion. This will just drive the best doctors into a private practice that middle income and the poor will not be able to afford. I’m not so cynical that I think it’s right to give the rich the best doctors and leave the rest for the poor. Obamacare will do just that.
Tell your friend this is not so much about quality of care, that’s not the issue. Money will always find quality.
Tell them this is not about healthcare, this is about control, changing the nature and character of the relationship of the People to its government.
America was really set up different for the purpose of keeping the government at bay because history shows that persons in government ALWAYS seek more and more control, more and more taxes, more and more roles to butt in. It never stops, it is like greed to a banker; it’s hardwired into the human character.
The UK and its commonwealth are not known for medical excellence. America is known for medical excellence. There is a reason for this. It has to do with the fundamental notion of a market. In the UK, the market is the government. In the USA, the market is free persons or free entities driven to find new products and services to market.
In the UK you can find medical excellence in a black market or in a special secretive word-of-mouth clinic. But I can guarantee you that 9 times out of 10, the techniques and technology used in those higher end clinics were developed in American markets.