@MattWalshBlog In other news, dihydrogen oxide can cause drowning…..
And there are no limits to human stupidity or the ability to be needlessly frightened about stupid stuff.
God help us.
This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take.
No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare.
The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.
Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year.
Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes.
Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment.
The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.”
America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be.
Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities.
Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.
It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.
Jason Riley: "We have got to do something about our moral standards. We know there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world too. We can't keep on blaming the white man.”
Community banks are the last place in America where a man in a short-sleeve dress shirt can approve a $400,000 loan based on the fact that he went to high school with your dad. There are 4,100 of them left. There were 14,000 in 1984. Every time one gets acquired, a teller named Brenda learns a new software system and a small town loses the only institution that would lend against a combine. The acquirer always says nothing will change. Brenda is gone in eighteen months. The lobby cookies go next. Then the branch closes. Then the building becomes a vape shop. This is not a financial trend. This is the slow administrative murder of the only version of capitalism that ever knew your name.
To the world, growing old elicits fear. In Christ, we have hope even as the end nears. Each passing year reminds us of his faithfulness, and we look forward to the coming day when we will see Christ face to face.
Interview: “Doctrine Will Help You Home”
@acluohio@Jstuckeymusic Note that Freedom OF religion is not the same as Freedom FROM religion - and the ACLU (and others) have pushed the latter, to the detriment of our society and our people.