by Tom Sutcliff

Created on: September 06, 2007

No, Michael Moore is wrong about the US health care system. If Cuba and France are supposed to be models of superior health care, why don't the advocates of socialized medicine put their health where their harsh words are by having their next medical procedure done in either of these countries?

Phony statistics and hyperbole aside, the US health care system is the best in the world for a reason: competition. When there is a profit motive to make a better, more efficient X-ray technology or diabetes drug, one country leads the entire world. That's right, it's the United States.

But this conflicts with the leftist demonization of capitalism and free-market economics, so the advocates of socialized medicine have to prop up phony claims about 40+ million people without health insurance. The number, which seems to grow every year, is comprised mostly of the following groups who are either ineligible for or choose not to buy health insurance:

1. Children
2. Illegal Immigrants
3. Young professionals trying to save money
4. Legal foreign workers

The democrats always trot out the sob stories about some family that does not have health insurance and then try to paint it as a class warfare issue. If only the greedy insurance companies were not paying their CEO's $20,000,000 a year, little Jenny could have that kidney transplant. This is the pathetic and false idea that the democrat party and their press department, the mainstream media, want you to believe.

The facts, for those who bother to investigate, show that this is not the case. More people die while waiting for medical attention in Canada and Great Britain under their socialized systems. Instead of getting an MRI within 24 hours, it might take 24 weeks to get it in the government-run health care systems. This goes against the common theme of early detection that health care professionals always promote.

But early detection becomes a thing of the past when you make going to the doctor the equivalent of mailing a package at the post office. The quality goes down, along with the health of those in the socialized system.

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