I heard a story recently about some woman in Canada calling in to some talk show (Rosie O’Donuts?).
She need some sort of gastric-bypass surgery.
She was on a waiting-list.
The wait just for the first consultation with a doctor was SEVEN YEARS.
They told her that as things progressed it might stretch out to nine years.
That’s just for the first doctor visit.
That’s the direction we’re heading. We’ve got the best medical system in the world.
I hate when it gets measured by percent of GDP spending, as if that’s a real measure. We spend more on it because we consume more of it.
That’s due to government skewing the market. Let’s return to the market and get government out of health care.
The intervention by government enables free riders to force their bad decisions on us.