Great post on the ills of a single-payer system. Money quote:

If you were to get in a scrap with a mean old junkyard dog and he managed to sink his teeth into your scrotum, from that point forward the dog is totally in charge. You may have the complete use of the rest of your body and even though, from a real estate point of view, the dog has laid claim to a fairly small portion of your property, where that dog goes you will go and you heart, mind, and soul will follow willingly.

Money drives medicine. Not a nurse empties a bed pan nor a surgeon repairs a hernia without money changing hands. This is so obvious that it is almost insulting to mention it. And yet the proponents of a Single Payer system seem believe that, although the government would have its teeth firmly embedded where it counts in every medical decision, nothing but good could possibly result.

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As an aside Panda, your blog template doesn’t format correctly in Mozilla. Sorry, the problem was on my end.