A modest healthcare proposal

A Modest Healthcare Proposal

                Einstein said insanity that was doing that same over again and expecting different results. But what did Einstein know? The government spends over half of the healthcare dollars in this country, so the most obvious solution for our current healthcare crisis is for the government to become more involved in healthcare and to spend more of our money on healthcare, basically to follow the fatal path of socialized medicine used by many countries around the world. Countries with socialized medicine insure their citizens, but insure them with nothing. Compared with the United States, women are two and half more times more likely to die of breast cancer in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and almost twice as likely to die in Germany. Numbers like this are not at all uncommon for any kind of fatal disease, but hey, at least people are insured for their deaths. The United States has four times as MRIs per capita as Canada, but that’s only diagnostic equipment, surely there are enough doctors in Canada. Some Canadian towns have to enter their citizens into lotteries to see who can see the town doctor that month because there are doctor shortages. But who doesn’t love lotteries? Some people spend hundreds of dollars a weeks trying to score big in the Powerball if the payoff becomes big enough.  The Affordable Care Act is bound to be a huge success at insuring people, force people to do anything by force and people will do it. Maybe the government should subsidize risk in the housing market next; surely nothing bad will happen there (oops…). Maybe Einstein wasn’t wrong…