A new report from the Citizens' Health Care Working Group established by Congress has concluded that the federal government should guarantee basic health care to all Americans. Many proponents, as well as opponents, of health-care reform equate universal coverage with a Canadian-style, government-run, single- payer system. But a survey of successful health-care systems around the world shows this is an incorrect assumption. For example, the World Health Organization rates France as having the No. 1 health-care system in the world. France's system covers everyone. It also is noted for its short waiting periods, affordability, freedom of physician choice, doctors who still make house calls, exemplary gynecological care, quality health care for immigrants and the poor, all while spending a...
Within the Kabuki theater of the town hall meetings, among the loud voices crying "socialism ... taking away our choices ... government controlled" and other made-for-TV spectacles, there should be some discussion of the facts. * The United States health care system ranks 37th in quality of health care, as reported by the World Health Organization. France is first, Italy second. Our major democratic trading partners - Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden and Canada - all deliver better health care, while the United States ranks behind Costa Rica and just ahead of Slovenia.
Imagine if your child had to show a "proof of education coverage" card to go to school this fall, and if 48 million children couldn't go. This is the situation we are in with health care. Thomas Jefferson said "If we're going to have a successful democratic society, we have to have a well-educated and healthy citizenry. All Americans deserve a basic health care plan, just like they deserve a basic education. All Americans have had the right to a public education since 1643, so it is time for all Americans to have health care. All other developed countries have universal health care. France has been rated the best health care system in the world. They have a basic health care plan for all citizens (the "Ford" of health care) and private insurance on top of that (the "Cadillac" of health...
With our firm adherence to our Constitution of liberty we have not taken the road to serfdom. Our regulated free market ensures our food, health and safety and competitiveness and fair play in the market. Our social contract - our Constitution and laws thereto - ensure our general welfare. With trial and error as in the sciences and life period, we have indeed found our regulated free market as the known ideal. Scandinavians seem to like their general welfare so much that they do not find higher taxes a burden, but a means to a better life for all. What they give in taxes, they make up in the quality of their paychecks and welfare system. We should look at France's health care system, in which people pay more in taxes and less in those deductible and copayments. Through a priva...
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Now, here's the problem, that in order for us to save money, in some cases, we've got to spend some money up front. Let me give you some very specific examples. Health care IT: Health care is the only area where you still have to fill out five different forms. I'll bet when you go into the bank you don't have to do that. You've got an ATM. If you use your credit card, they'll find you real quick, and the billing is real easy-[laughter]-right?
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Michael Moore's "Sicko" is an important movie. Not because it is objective. It isn't. And not because it is fair and totally accurate. It isn't those, either. It is important because it has found a way to energize the public debate on the future of the American system of health care. Mr. Moore, striding through the film in his lumpy jacket and baseball cap, makes a case for universal, single-payer health care. He interviews desperate Americans who have felt cheated and mistreated by the American system, and happy customers of government- run health systems in Canada, Britain and France. He notes American postal service, fire protection, water service and libraries - as well as Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Health Care Service are all publicly supplied and supported by taxes and as...
Thousands of patriotic Kansans gathered in communities small and large last week to protest the glut of Washington and the direction our country is headed under President Obama's leadership -- or lack thereof. April 15 reminded us once again why we need relief from the cumbersome tax system that cannot keep up with the appetite of tax- and-spend politicians in Washington. Quite simply, we have more government than we can afford. As if the current tax system were not enough of a burden, we continue to hear rumblings from the administration about establishing a value added tax system patterned after Europe. The president has already signed into law a European-like nationalized health care scheme that will cost us $1.2 trillion with tax increases almost too large to comprehend. And now Was...
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