More on healthcare

Hopefully I can quickly and succinctly express myself of healthcare, or share the links to articles that I agree with. I agree with them because of the facts they present. I just read this in the Wall Street Journal about how Tennessee tried to create universal healthcare for the entire state. It nearly bankrupted them, and is a chilling example of what could happen to the entire country.

Here is an op-ed from the WSJ describing what the government can do to facilitate universal healthcare.

“While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment.”

And here is Ed Shultz himself, getting fed his own socks by Bishop Harry Jackson after he goes on and on like a pompous idiot about how America shouldn’t hide their Bibles under the beds and Dobson, Graham, et. al. made plenty of money on their books but won’t stand up to support a “christian” president on “his” healthcare plan. True to liberal form, Ed builds up his christian strawman and beats it into dust…but I don’t think he was expecting Jackson to disagree with him!

Jackson makes it clear that support or non-support for the president’s plan has nothing to do with morality – it is how the plan is to be executed and whether a public plan is even a good idea. Another example I have read about is the Candadian single payer government run program. Although the Canadians are seen to be healthier than Americans, the average wait time for a doctors appointment is 17 weeks (don’t remember source). This is what Jackson is referring to: if he had lived in Canada, he would be dead.

And who says the Canadian system is even doing good?

UPDATE: Here is more on the failings of the Canadian system.