Myth 16. In countries with government-funded health care, people get immediate care in emergencies, though they may have to wait for elective procedures.

The usual response to concerns about the months-long waiting lists for surgery in Canada and Britain is that this is a mere inconvenience, a small price to pay for universal “free” care. If you have a really serious need, you’ll get immediate attention—or so Michael Moore and others tell us. Continue reading

Single payer cat out of the bag!

Another Democrat – Rep Barney Frank of MA — finally admits that the “Public Plan” provisions in the health care bills are intended to lead the U.S. to a single-payer, socialized system.

 “The best way to get single-payer is to have a public plan option” is the mantra he repeats in a video shot on July 27, 2009 outside the National Press Building in Washington DC. Continue reading

Myth 6: Life expectancy is longer in other countries because they have universal tax-funded medical coverage, and the U.S. does not.

The longest-lived people are probably the Japanese. They have good genes, are seldom overweight, and eat lots of fish. They have had a government-funded medical system since 1927—and they also have a robust private medical sector. Japanese, like all people except Canadians and North Koreans, are not restricted to a “single” (government) payer. How do we know they wouldn’t live even longer without their government medicine? Continue reading