You Don't Have to be a Brain Surgeon to Understand What's Wrong With National Healthcare!

(I have noticed that my blog is loading quite slowly. It happened after I loaded the video at the top of this blog, so I’ve removed it to see whether it makes a difference or not.)

Approximately thirty years ago my step-mother died of cancer. It began in her Ovaries, but quickly spread. She lived for several years with it, but the medical expenses were so high that she and my father were going to lose their property in order to pay for the hospital bills. They didn’t have adequate insurance coverage. They could have had adequate insurance, but my father chose to spend his money on himself. No, he didn’t drink or gamble, but he went on long trips, always by himself, leaving my step-mother at home to work as an underwriter for an insurance company until she retired. She had some coverage, but it wasn’t nearly enough. My husband and I bought their property to save them from losing it, and they lived there until they passed on. My step-mother died first from the cancer, my father passed several years later.

I tell you this because even though they needed our help, I prefer that to what may have happened under a national healthcare system. My step-mother was at least able to get into the hospital for regular scheduled appointments. They didn’t make her wait for weeks or months in order to see a doctor. She had the best care they could give her, but unfortunately there wasn’t, and still isn’t, a cure for cancer.

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to understand what will happen under a national healthcare system. Let’s say you are working for minimum wage as a waitress. You bust your butt being the best waitress you can be because most of your money comes from the tips that people leave you. Now let’s suppose that the government made a law that tips are no longer allowed. No matter how hard you work you aren’t going to make one cent more than minimum wage. Are you still going to be the best waitress you can be? Are you still going to get around to as many tables as you possibly can? Are you going to watch the people at those tables to see if they want more of anything? Of course you wont! Why is it people think doctors are going to be any different? Why should a doctor overload himself with patients if he’s going to get a check from the government regardless of how many patients he sees? Doctors are human too, ya know!

Please take the time to watch this video. If you still think that the government running our healthcare system is a good idea, then you may very well deserve to have it.