Refusing to learn

Whenever somebody starts talking about how "universal" (i.e. Socialist) health care would be so great, I'm amazed that these people refuse to see just what happens to a country's health care when the government takes it over.

Case in point: Britain.

Seriously ill patients are being kept in ambulances outside hospitals for hours so NHS trusts do not miss Government targets.

Thousands of people a year are having to wait outside accident and emergency departments because trusts will not let them in until they can treat them within four hours, in line with a Labour pledge.

The hold-ups mean ambulances are not available to answer fresh 999 calls.

You do NOT want the government running your health care. Period, end of story. Just think of how much the bean-counters have already screwed up this country. You want to put THEM in charge?

Or to put it another way: Do you want your health care provider to look at you as a patient and source of revenue, or do you want them to look at you as just another cost to be dealt with?

Found via Sondra K's place.