Carl Davidson – 12/22/16

 


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AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM …; Carl Davidson (KD); Facebook; December 22, 2016.

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Local lefty leader Carl Davidson (KD) wrote, “AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM …” referring to a chart on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (Socialist-VT) Facebook page.  There are at least two Bernie Sanders (BS) posts using the chart; the one KD linked to (10/13/16) and one of 12/28/16.  The accompanying BS comments appear to be the only difference.

If you do as everyone else does, are you exceptional?  BS’ “everybody else does it” sales pitch reminds me of a question many of us heard as kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?”

Cuba has a government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare monopoly (aka “a Single Payer national health care program”).  Why, then, do families risk their lives to leave the Cuban healthcare paradise to go to the healthcare hellhole known as the United States?

Let’s say you had a disease your doctor had been treating unsuccessfully for 50+ years.  (Please ignore the fact no one would let this situation fester for this long.)  Not only were you not cured, your health got worse.  If your doctor then told you he could cure you simply by doing more of what he had been doing, would you have any reason to believe him?  This is exactly what’s going on with U.S. healthcare.  Government has been tinkering with medical care policy since at least WWII, the result of which is the huge healthcare mess we now have.  The solution offered by lefties like BS and KD?  A government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare monopoly (aka “Single Payer …”), of course.

Citizens cannot be dependent on their government for medical needs and remain free.  That’s exactly the kind of thing the Founders tried to avoid when they granted the federal government limited responsibilities.  To make sure their intent was not misunderstood, the Founders added the Ninth and 10th amendments.

A free market represents the best approach to providing the best combination of healthcare accessibility, choice, price, quality, timeliness of treatment, et cetera.  Details are in my paper “Healthcare.”

The subject chart poses the question “How can the United States stand to be the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people as a right?”

Below are a couple of comments from the discussion thread.

Clare Cosman (CC) wrote, “Because we have been getting away with it for so many years. Not a historian but if one seriously looks at American history, it’s there. Starting withTruman and the Manhattan Project, we dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and thought we got the Nazis.; And congratulated ourselves. It is our thinking legacy to think we are doing for Democracy, when in fact we could do a whole lot more to really ensure Democracy. For beginning, we should start with One Person, One Vote with the guarantee that no person who lives here is prevented from voting.”

CC’s “Not a historian?”  No kidding.  The Manhattan Project was FDR’s baby.  Mr. Truman didn’t learn about it until 4/24/45 or 4/25/45, 12 or 13 days after FDR died.  The wording of the sentence “we dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and thought we got the Nazis” can be read two ways.  First, CC could think nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki had something to do with defeating Nazi Germany.”  Hitler committed suicide on 4/30/45 and Nazi Germany surrendered by 5/8/45, three months before we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Second, CC could have simply meant we defeated our WWII enemies.  CC seems upset we “congratulated ourselves” after we defeated our WWII enemies.  In any case, what does any of this have to with medical care?

David Sieracki (DS) wrote, “It’s not big medical or big pharma that are preventing universal healthcare. People will ALWAYS need doctors and medicine. regardless of who pays the bill.  Doctors and Hospitals would LOVE universal healthcare.  It’s the health insurance lobby that hates it.  They are the ones with something to lose.”

“Doctors and Hospitals would LOVE universal healthcare?”  Why?  In the communist approach, hospitals and doctor practices would be government owned and run and all doctors and nurses would become government employees.  In the fascist approach, the healthcare industry would technically still be owned by the private sector, but government regulation would take sufficient operating control to make the government the de facto owners, and doctors and nurses would become de facto government employees.  The bottom line is, “He who pays the piper calls the tune,” and the government becomes the only payer.

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