Nightmare: Heritage Foundation Exposes Universal Health Care Myths & Destruction of Free Market

[Belinda Realion]

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 1, 2009 Free market health care will be destroyed by nationalized / single-payer health care | Photo credit: Ivy Dawned, flickr.com Call it public health care, socialized health care, universal health care, government health care, nationalized health care, single-payer health care, “ObamaCare”… the lofty claims, happy-ending myths, and actual lies about this kind of taxpayer-subsidized, government-run health care have been explored and debunked by the Heritage Foundation. Socialized health care will destroy the free market and competition in health care, and eliminate free will choices and individual privacy. It hasn’t worked in other countries; there is no reason to believe that it will work in the United States. More money (a lot more money) from taxpayers to pay for substandard, rationed health care will be the end result. It won’t be cheaper, it won’t be better, it won’t work in conjunction with private health care plans. And the very people it claims it will help will, oftentimes, not be helped, particularly older Americans. Here are a few paragraphs from their report: The Public Health Care Plan: What Seems to Be the Problem? By The Heritage Foundation Debunking the Myths - Fact Sheet #29 Lower Costs? It’s a shell game. A government plan always looks cheaper, but the reality is that the true costs are hidden. Costs are passed on to providers in administrative costs and lower reimbursements, resulting in a huge cost-shift to private payers to make up the difference. Quality Care? One only needs to look at current government health plans. Medicare has huge gaps in coverage. And Medicaid’s quality is notoriously bad. The record is clear: They offer substandard care compared to private health insurance, especially in the areas of cancer and cardiac care. These persistent quality deficiencies are routinely overlooked in discussions of a government health plan. Increased Competition? With a public plan, the federal government would create the rules for the “game” in which it plans to compete. But the government would not just be a neutral umpire in the game. It would also own one of the competing teams, namely the public plan. The Public Plan Won’t Crowd Out Private Insurance? It’s impossible to believe that Congress and the Administration could resist setting rules—and interpreting those rules—in favor of their own public plan. Independent estimates show that as many as 119 million Americans would no longer be in private coverage. The End Goal Is Not Single-Payer? As Congresswoman Schakowsky will tell you, the end goal is definitely a single-payer system. That’s why many supporters of a single-payer system, where the government runs the whole health system, are suddenly converts to choice and private competition as long as there is a public plan. For more information, go to Heritage Foundation. 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