{"id":10090,"date":"2019-05-23T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2019-05-25T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:54:32","slug":"609-socialized-health-cares-sacred-immorality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10090","title":{"rendered":"609 – Socialized health care’s sacred immorality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the United States, Medicare costs (along with the cost of health care services generally) continue to rise to unsustainable levels. As patient satisfaction levels decline, many Americans have been led to call for a Canadian-style \u2018universal\u2019 health care system<\/strong>. Meanwhile in Canada, and unknown to most Americans, health care waiting lists continue to grow, as more and more Canadians find themselves unable to get the basic care they need. <\/strong><\/p>\n

While each country boasts excellent health care services, broad accessibility to these services has become another matter entirely. Common to both countries are various prohibitions <\/strong>of the provision of medical services on a truly free market, which guarantees cost escalation. As more people find it difficult to afford their basic health care needs, politicians have seized upon the problem they caused by offering them a means to access those services without incurring a direct personal cost \u2013 socialized health care<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the perpetual controversy over socialized health care, confusion reigns supreme, partially due to the varying testimonials of patients within a given system. Some are quite happy with the medical services they receive, while most appear less so. Another reason has to do with the fact that at any given point in time, only a minority of people find themselves forced to experience their health care systems directly, while the vast majority has no direct knowledge of the crisis looming at their doorsteps.<\/strong>
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\nFor politicians, selling socialized medicine takes the form a complex propaganda effort, based on a moral declaration that everyone has a \u2018right to health care,\u2019 and by enshrining that declaration in the form of \u2018fundamental principles.\u2019 Thus, the fundamental principles of Medicare (public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability, accessibility) are considered sacred and inviolable; consequently, no politician dares question them<\/strong>. To do so would be \u2018politically incorrect.\u2019<\/p>\n

Worse, no longer is \u2018affordable health care\u2019 an objective; now the political objective has become \u2018free health care for all\u2019 \u2013 a sure formula for creating a disaster for all. Far from being considered \u2018sacred,\u2019 Medicare\u2019s principles should be considered immoral<\/strong>, given their false premise, the false promises made, and the necessity of violating individual rights in the provision of those promises.<\/p>\n

Suggested solutions and fixes to socialized health care\u2019s long waiting lists and increasingly unsustainable costs have not changed since the birth of socialized health care itself. These include perpetual suggestions like \u201callowing more privatization\u201d both in the provision of medical services and\/or in the provision of insurance plans. However, even if acted upon, these suggestions are hopelessly ineffective at correcting a problem that will continue to escalate against the unlimited demands have been placed on the system. Worse, they will never be effectively acted upon in the first place, because they violate socialized health care\u2019s \u2018sacred immorality<\/strong>\u2019 to which politicians have sworn their allegiance.<\/p>\n

To understand the flaw inherent in the principles of Medicare in a way that health care might be set Just Right, it is important to realize that the problem is not an economic one, but a moral <\/strong>one.<\/p>\n

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