Charles Krauthammer: "In Less Than Seven Years, We Will Be In A Single-Payer System"

RCP ^ | 05/05/2017 | Ian Schwartz

[lavaroise]

Why is no one denouncing the liberal men who do not want to be men but keep screwing women to abortion paid by other tax paying women?

This is the essence of “human” government health care: men who cannot take care of things, part of the “genderless” ant hill that America is fast becoming, with women,like in islam, invariably being forced to do the work.

Slave societies always end up making wpmen and children work for the rest, and this is why they push pedophilia, as a means of breakdown of people.

This is an utterly evil path and the gutless GOP is incapable of formulating it

[Georgia Girl 2]

Sad but likely accurate. Less than 7 years IMO.

[SaveFerris]

I have to agree with that.

[SaveFerris]

I preferred Carnac the Magnificent. Especially if the truth had been hermetically-sealed in a mayonnaise jar and kept on Funk and Wagnall’s porch since 11 o’clock today.

[Reily]

That’s exactly what’s going to happen!

Far far too many people believe in economic magic.

Endless entitlements an invite horn of plenty with goodies for all at no cost or consequence.

[Reily]

That’s exactly what’s going to happen!

Far far too many people believe in economic magic.

Endless entitlements an infinite horn of plenty with goodies for all at no cost or consequence.

[TBP]

Get the government OUT.

[Rockitz]

Actually, I have seen the single-payer system in China first hand as my family has been there so many times that we have had occasion to go to the hospital a number of different times. There are reasons it works there that could never translate to here for four major reasons. The medical process here is controlled by the well-moneyed interests including:

1. AMA and their member doctors,
2. Big hospital and medical device corporations,
3. Big Pharmaceutical Companies
4. Politicians who take campaign contributions from these 3

This combination sometimes helps quality, but most times just makes these special interests a lot of money. Changing the momentum of these special interests would be like turning an aircraft carrier on a dime.

There are good things about the Chinese implementation of single payer health care

1, An oversupply of doctors there, whereas here the AMA and medical schools severely restrict the number of new doctors produced each year.
2. Inexpensive doctors and medicine compared to here, although training is limited and medicines are many times limited to those that were developed years ago.
3. Significantly more availability of IV medicine which is the best way to receive many medications. (visualize rooms full of people seated, getting their medicine by IV)
4. Doctors eventually get very well trained, due to the shear volume of patients they see.

...and there are drawbacks

1. Training of doctors is not as extensive as here so some new doctors are very inexperienced.
2. Lines for everything- specialists, medicine, paying the bill (it’s a whole day process)
3. There appear to be limits on the types of procedures, medicines, and specialists available to the common man.

We had connections since both my in-laws are doctors and my wife is trained as an anesthesiologist. Accordingly, we got special treatment (at times) in the form of skipping lines, access to specialists, and medicines that others didn’t. They have doctors who will accept a red envelope (cash payment) in exchange for preferred treatment. It is illegal, but that’s how the wealthy get past the lines.