As I have only just finished paying through my nose for being a dumbass and hurting myself by falling off a bike months ago, I can sympathize with those who recoil at medical costs.
But, I was able to get immediate care. Let me put it another way, I would rather have been injured here in the US and pay through my nose for months than get injured in Nigeria and get medical attention for free (not that that is happening in Nigeria these days anyway).
Thomas Sowell, who should have been the first black African American President, once again dispels myth and substitutes common sense fact in Alice in Medical Care.
Some snippets:
“A cynic is said to be someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. If so, then it is political cynicism to point to other countries that spend less on medical care, including some countries where there is "universal health care" provided "free" by their governments.”
“The cost of developing a new pharmaceutical drug is now about a billion dollars. Neither political rhetoric nor government bureaucracies will make those costs go away.”
“Surgery may well cost less in countries with government-run medical systems-- if you count only the money cost, and not the time the patients have to endure the ailments that require surgery, or the fact that some conditions become worse, or even fatal, while waiting.”
“A recent report from the Fraser Institute in Canada shows that patients there wait an average of ten weeks to get an MRI, just to find out what is wrong with them. A lot of bad things can happen in 10 weeks, ranging from suffering to death.”
Read the full thing; this is common sense for all except for those who wander in the darkness of liberal idiocy.
Hat tip, TRB.
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