The Horrors Of Government Health Care: Woman With Brain Tumor Forced To Flee Canadian Health Care
A compelling story indicating that, for all the flaws of America’s way of doing health care, we’re still better off keeping the government from taking over.
What got me the most was not the point at which it was revealed that she would have gone blind if she had waited to get treatment in the Canadian health care system, which is bad enough, but rather at the end when this couple indicated that they’re now $100,000 in debt as a result of the testing and treatments she got to remove her brain tumor. She gets emotional and she cries at the fact that her husband had to get a second job and pick up hours to pay off their debts. While I’m sure her good health and vision was worth this mighty sum to them, keep in mind that not only does this couple have to pay off their $100,000 debt but they must also continue to pay sky-high taxes to the Canadian government so that it can continue to fund a health care system that failed them.
Again, there is nothing perfect about market-driven health care systems. But the idea that the government can somehow run health care better is ridiculous. Better to have a system where you can buy all the health care you need, knowing that you may not always be able to afford all that you can get, rather than a system where some bureaucrats decide when and where and how much health care you can get no matter what you do.
