Even With Health Care "Reform" US Will Still Be Far Behind Other Industrialized Nations
While dismissing any health care reform like the single payer, universal health care for all that is found in Canada (which, by the way, has a conservative government) the UK, France, Germany and other industrialized nations, this administration seems determined to maintain the US status of a health care failure compared to these other countries.
This administration apparently agrees with the Republican philosophy that health care is a privilege and a commodity, not a right, as in most industrialized countries. This philosophy usually emanates from the lips of those hypocritical GOP members on Capitol Hill who have the best government provided health care paid for by the taxpayers many of whom can't afford health care because they've lost their jobs or it's unaffordable. (Another example of Republican hypocrisy.)
David Sirota at Campaign for America's Future asks the perennial question: "If private health care is so awesome, why would it lose a competition against government health care?"
"If the "free market" is as marvelously awesome as conservatives claim, shouldn't it have absolutely no problem winning a health-care competition with "government-run programs?" Or does this little-talked-about hypocrisy in the Republicans' argument expose a brazen corruption? Does it show that conservatives are totally bought off by the private health insurance industry that Americans despise?
"I'd say the latter. The conservative movement sees polls showing the public supports the concept of government-sponsored health care (and loves government programs like Medicare) - that is, the party knows that if given the choice, many Americans would choose a government-run program over private health insurance. But because the party is so owned and operated by the private health insurance industry, it is willing to effectively undermine its entire macro-argument about the supremacy of the free market so as to shill for its moneyed benefactors."
Perhaps these private health care corporations also fear that the jig would be up for their bilking, stealing, and defrauding of Medicare and other government programs that they regularly commit, knowing they will only pay fines rather than going to the slammer.
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