- We note John McCain is not using the Phoenix Veterans Administration hospital, akin to a single-payer plan, in pursuit of treatment of his brian cancer. He prefers the Phoenix Mayo Clinic. It is nice to have a life affirming alternative
It is a reasonable question, our title. The logic is relentless, with monopoly control, death panels are inevitable, that is the essence of the Charlie Gard saga. What do you believe the calculus would be regarding an unknown 80-year-old in McCain’s condition? Say one who has to rely on the Veterans Administration? In a full-blown system as in England there is no recourse because the enforcer says so, witness Charlie Gard.
Paul Jacobs writing at Town Hall, makes a provocative statement, and if opponents of the government takeover of health care are smart, little Charlie Gard should be a cause celeb to help educate about and stop Big Government run health care.
Charlie Gard, Single-Payer … Both Dead (excerpts)
- The idea behind a single-payer healthcare system is that costs can be forced down by the monopoly power of that single payer: big brother government. But monopolizing healthcare in this way puts a dysfunctional central authority in charge of medical care, moving the country further away from market incentives.
- Monopolies have never performed well in keeping costs low and quality high. Neither has government.
- But perhaps the strongest argument against single-payer healthcare — dramatized by the plight of Charlie Gard and his parents — is that the all-powerful single-paying government will also be the all-powerful single-decider.
- A single-paying Uncle Sam may one day decide it is in your best interest to die.
Some excellent ideas from Wayne Allyn Root, also writing at Town Hall (excerpt)
The Executive Orders That End Obamacare – Once and For All
Executive Order #1: President Trump should issue an immediate Executive Order forcing every member of Congress to use the same healthcare plan as the rest of us. Let Senator McCain come off his high horse and live under the rules of Obamacare. Make every member of Congress live by same rules as the rest of us.
I wonder if John McCain would have voted against the Obamacare repeal, if he had to live under the rules of Obamacare? I wonder how quick and successful his brain cancer surgery would have been, if he had to use the Obamacare plan. Or the VA system.
Would he have waited 6 months in line, like rest of us? Maybe a year. Of course, he’d probably be dead by then. That’s how the VA solved their money shortage a few years back. They put vets on waiting lists until they died. Problem solved. Why not make Senators wait on those same waiting lists?
Or would McCain have had a gigantic deductible (just like the rest of us)? Would he have had a $30,000 bill after surgery that insurance would not cover (just like the rest of us)?
Would McCain have even been allowed to have a surgery, or would a “death panel” deny surgery, and no experimental medicine for an 80-year-old with advanced brain cancer?
These experimental treatments target brain cancer like John McCain’s
Charlie Gard should be a poster child of opposition to “single payer” and Big Government run health care and John McCain, on the wanted poster for self-indulgent hypocritical politicians who refuse to kill the Big Government cancer of Obamacare.
Obamacare is “the one” that does not deserve treatment, palliative or otherwise.
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Jimmy Kimmel thinks keeping Obamacare means all kids like his would receive an operation like his did. At it’s logical conclusion, his kid would be treated like Charlie Gard and Kimmel’s money would be useless. If I recall correctly, Hillarycare had provisions to ban doctors from operating outside the government system.