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]]> By: MBA http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/give-me-a-break/madoff-is-a-piker/comment-page-1/#comment-6360 MBA Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:25:29 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=8917#comment-6360 The truly scary conclusion that can be drawn from this is that as these two systems deteriorate, the treatment of the sick and elderly will become worse. Instead of celebrating increased lifespans and quality of life into old age, medical advances become a curse of the welfare state. Government agencies will employ a new rationing to prevent caring for the elderly. Treatment will be stealthly denied that, in the absence of these programs and their corresponding inflation, people may have been perfectly able to afford on their own. The worst rationing that will occur is the suppression of new advances in medicine because the entrepreneurs have left for other markets. No one can know what they never experienced. The value that is placed on the individual is inversely proportional to the penetration of socialism in government. As government funded social programs grow, people served within these programs are increasingly mistreated. It becomes a matter of course. This can be seen in any market that becomes socialist, but is especially disheartening in medicine. It is frustrating to wait in long lines at the DMV as bureaucrats process their senseless forms. It is quite another level of dysfunction when the sick wait interminably and die as governments try to cut costs in health care programs they can neither understand nor control. It is, in fact, immoral, yet it is already happening. People tolerate unacceptable waits in emergency rooms and are refused certain treatments because Medicare won’t cover it. In countries that are further socialized, people wait for dangerously unacceptable periods for important operations and scans that should be routine and provided the same day. This is not a failure of “health care.” It is the intrusion of socialism. A concerned medical student The truly scary conclusion that can be drawn from this is that as these two systems deteriorate, the treatment of the sick and elderly will become worse. Instead of celebrating increased lifespans and quality of life into old age, medical advances become a curse of the welfare state. Government agencies will employ a new rationing to prevent caring for the elderly. Treatment will be stealthly denied that, in the absence of these programs and their corresponding inflation, people may have been perfectly able to afford on their own. The worst rationing that will occur is the suppression of new advances in medicine because the entrepreneurs have left for other markets. No one can know what they never experienced.

The value that is placed on the individual is inversely proportional to the penetration of socialism in government. As government funded social programs grow, people served within these programs are increasingly mistreated. It becomes a matter of course. This can be seen in any market that becomes socialist, but is especially disheartening in medicine. It is frustrating to wait in long lines at the DMV as bureaucrats process their senseless forms. It is quite another level of dysfunction when the sick wait interminably and die as governments try to cut costs in health care programs they can neither understand nor control. It is, in fact, immoral, yet it is already happening. People tolerate unacceptable waits in emergency rooms and are refused certain treatments because Medicare won’t cover it. In countries that are further socialized, people wait for dangerously unacceptable periods for important operations and scans that should be routine and provided the same day. This is not a failure of “health care.” It is the intrusion of socialism.

A concerned medical student

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