Beware the dangers of universal health care

Yes, it sounds good. But, be careful what you wish for:

Furthermore, establishing a Health Insurance floor, as any UHC system must inevitably do, will encourage suppliers of Tier 1A care to edge toward Tier 3 care (since Tier 2 will be slowly disappearing.) Since Tier 1 and 1A effectively support the bulk of innovation in Medicine, this movement will further constrict the moneys available for difficult and expensive research. Even those in Tier 1 will suffer by the loss of life saving innovations.

It will all be sold as fulfilling the credo that is almost universally fed to young people in the health care system, that “Health Care is a Right, not a Privilege.” Sadly, the only way to make this privilege a right is to offer almost everyone the same level of care, and that way lies disaster.

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