by Michael Skinner

Created on: June 25, 2009

Even though the state of California is due to go bankrupt in 90 days, a government union the employees of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) have authorized a strike. Despite the fact that California has one of the highest unemployment levels in the nation, BART workers who make on average over $70000 a year and get over $40000 in benefits are demanding more money.

This is in microcosm the reason why government run health care is likely to be a disaster. When the government is paying for the bills those who are getting or spending the money feel a sense of entitlement. They do not feel a sense of responsibility. They don't care what happens to anyone else, as long as they get theirs.

The worst run programs in the federal government are Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. They are all in danger of going bankrupt themselves and of bankrupting the nation.

If you don't like grandma, government run health care is an excellent way to get rid of her.

Most of the money spent on health care is spent in the last two weeks of life. And in fact it is the elderly who use the health care system the most. What you will find if you examine the socialized medicine that exists in other countries with government run health care is rationing. Once the profit motive is gone, there is less incentive to produce new doctors, create new procedures and buy new machines. This means that there are never enough surgeons or heart lung machines or dialysis machines to go around. So those who actually need this kind of health care often have to wait in line to get it. When granny gets really sick, she is virtually guaranteed to die waiting in line for her medicine.

In England when the government mandated that the wait time in the emergency room had to be under four hours, ambulances would circle the block until that four window could be met. Then they delivered the patient to the hospital. Just think, one day you could be guaranteed to die in an ambulance rather than a hospital. Isn't that better?

One of the more disturbing realities about the coming of socialized medicine is that it is going to be done with funny money. Even now the government is printing money and inflating it's way out of debt. So any new expenditures such as socialized medicine will be done with this funny money.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , the rate of growth of Medicare projected at about 8% will outstrip the expected growth rate

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