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Exclusive: Is Socialized Healthcare The Cure for What Ails America?

by THE EDITORS July 23, 2009
Unless you live under a rock (and we know FSM readers do not!), you’ll know that the great debate on socialized government healthcare (a.k.a. “single payer” or “nationalized” healthcare) is raging once again. (Remember Hillarycare?) Citizens all over this great nation are speaking up to tell President Obama and Congress to “butt out” of their medical care.
 
The recent stimulus package to the tune of nearly $1 trillion dollars has failed to stimulate the economy as promised – official unemployment numbers are inching close to 10 percent, with numbers exceeding that in several states. Unbelievably, Vice President Joe Biden is telling us we have to spend even more money to get out of the hole. Only to those mired in the fantasyland of Washington D.C. could something like this even begin to make sense. Yet it was a crisis. If we didn’t act immediately, things would get worse. Well we did act immediately and things got worse anyway.
 
Now, we’re being told that if we don’t act immediately on healthcare, the crisis will turn critical. So critical that the plan on the table would cost somewhere around $1.6 trillion over 10 years and would only cover one third of the uninsured people we’ve heard so much about – even those who choose not to have insurance. Will Congress have to be a part of the public plan? Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) dodged a direct question about that. Obviously, then, the plan must be a terrific one.
 
We’re always hearing about the great socialized healthcare of nations like Canada and the UK. But is it really so rosy? Click here for a look at the joys of the Canadian system, and click here for some insight as to what socialized medicine looks like in the UK.
 
If you want the kind of service you receive at the DMV and other government-run services, where the elderly and others with unusual health problems will get shortchanged, you’ll love socialized medicine. If not, you may want to know about the alternatives being offered. For example, Republican Sen. Jim DeMint has offered an alternative called “The Health Freedom Plan.” Click here for details.
 
Nothing this important should be rushed into just to “get things done.”
 
Are you concerned about the effects of socialized healthcare? Tell your elected officials what you think.
 
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