Healthcare anyone?

Rather than bloviate I'm just going to give you a few statistics about healthcare in countries that provide universal healthcare.

We'll start in the U.S in the great state of Mass.
After implementing their statewide Universal care, emergency visits rose by 7% and costs by 18%

France: The workers pay 19% in taxes for their "universal" healthcare, and yet 90% choose to pay extra for supplemental private insurance.

Italy: The average wait time for a mammogram? 70 days.

Uk: Wait times in emergency rooms? 4 hours. Wait times in the ambulance? Up to 5 hours. Total time? 9 hours.
Some hospitals encouraging "turning over bed sheets" to save money.
Half of the dentists in the UK will not accept people on the government health program.
Wait time for surgery? Six months.
NICE gets to decide if your life is worth living. For instance, the cancer drug, Tykerb, which delays the progression of breast cancer is deemed "too expensive".
Around 20% of patients with treatable colon cancer are considered incurable by the time they get treatment.

Canada: It used to be illegal to go to non government health facilities, until their supreme court ruled that "access to a waiting list is not access to healthcare." Hmmm....

Cuba: Uses induced abortion to lower it's infant mortality rate. That would be almost funny if it wasn't totally sick.

Greece: Has 600 general practitioners. They need 6,000 to function. It's so bad, patients BRIBE doctors to get appointments.

US: 36 of the last 43 Nobel Prizes in Medicine were awarded to someone from the U.S.

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