Fellow single-payer basher Stuart Browning with an explanation:
Why would a billionaire fly thousands of miles to get surgery in a country whose health care system is rated so low by WHO when he could have had his surgery in any one of the socialized health care systems of Europe that WHO ranks so highly? Perhaps, because the WHO health care rankings have little to do with healing – and everything to do with politics – make that socialism.The 2000 WHO report based 25% of its score on the “fairness” of a country’s health care financing which is measured by how much more higher-income groups pay for health care than lower-income groups. We are constantly reminded by single-payer advocates that the U.S. spends more on health care than other nations and gets less as shown by our low ranking on the WHO report. Their circular argument seems to be “we need government-run medicine because reports show that we don’t have enough government-run medicine”.
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I think one of the strangest things that will happen if we go to a single payer system like Canada is what will happen to the elite athletes here. Could you imagine Carson Palmer waiting behind Wally from the YMCA for 8 months to get his ACL repair. Or sorry Donovan you have a sports hernia you are 823 on the list for a repair.
‘Why do the world’s richest come to the US for health care?”
Because it is the best! End of story.
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