How Government Healthcare Works

Costs Rise, More are Employed, and Less is Actually Done

Theodore Dalrymple [click to read] in City Journal has a dire picture of what awaits Americans if they allow the government to move to a single payer system. Dalrymple, a physician, has written on this issue before. He knows what he's talking about.

"Americans would do well to ponder a recent admission by a former British minister in the Blair government. On March 2, the Guardian reported that the ex-minister, now Lord Warner, said that while spending on Britain’s National Health Service had increased by 60 percent under the Labour government, its output had decreased by 4 percent. No doubt the spending of a Soviet-style organization like the NHS is more easily measurable than its output, but the former minister’s remark certainly accords with the experiences of many citizens, who see no dramatic improvement in the service as a result of such vastly increased outlays. On the contrary, while the service has taken on 400,000 new staff members—that is to say, one-fifth of all new jobs created in Britain during the period—continuity of medical care has been all but extinguished. Nobody now expects to see the same doctor on successive occasions, in the hospital or anywhere else."

Media Bias?

Here's Phil's Letter to the Editor [click to read]. Probably won't make it to print but you need to read it right here in the annals of 'Citizen Journalism.'

Stupak got Skunked [click to read] is even better with Phil's visual!

Pro Life or Anti Life [click to read]. He who controls the language controls the discussion.