Sunday, March 14, 2010

Socialized Medicine’s Meaning

Too large a segment of the public still does not truly understand what happens when the government is in charge of spending or granting funds for health. It can never be even-handed when there are budgets and limited funds to consider.

We already have that to a degree in the United States today, when more research is done on breast cancer than on prostate cancer. That happens because of inordinate political pressures. Aids research has always received more funds per normal need than does breast cancer. How many women realize that?

In Europe, rationing of drugs and treatment results from chronically limited funds. Medical research in the U.S. will eventually be curtailed as well, when funds are constrained.

Need further proof? Look at the states in America where a form of socialized health care already is underway.

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