Universal Healthcare Is Not About Healthcare

A Progressive Leader, while confessing leftist sins, declared that “Universal Healthcare” was one of movement’s causes. Why? Power.

Universal Health Care creates power. If someone other than an elected official controlled seventeen percent of the United States’ economy, what would you think? Currently, U.S. health care costs hover at around seventeen percent. Someone controlling a U.S. Universal Health program would have as much power as many nation’s leaders. They arguably would have more power than most United States Governors.

Universal Health Care’s power is god-like. The person in charge has the power to make actual “life or death” decisions. The person in charge likewise has the power to extend or shorten life. The person in power has the ability to cure someone or keep them in infirmity.

The power to control patients is quite easy. Denials of particular forms of care, denials of treatment, and delays of treatment are tactics that can be employed. Given socialistic values, the queue to receive medical care can be prioritized to favor those designated as the oppressed. Those viewed as being in the oppressor class can be sent to the back of the line.

Those in charge of Universal Health Care have the power make people rich. Also, they have the power to make them poor. Those in charge can dictate hiring policies as well as set wages. Further, Universal Health Care has the power to set prices and qualify vendors for participation. They have the power to impact all medical facilities, pharmaceutical companies and all employees within the medical field.

Universal Health Care’s administrators have the power to reshape medical care. This can be done by creating algorithms for treatment based upon philosophies outside of medicine. Socialism, gender ideology, and religious theology are all in the mix. This notion is not limited to the left. For instance, circumcision arguably could be labeled as a theologically based medical procedure. Abortion, as well, is a medical procedure with theological considerations.

Universal Health Care’s power can extend beyond health care. Those in charge can wield political power. With a large block of organized health care workers, those in power can control them. The enticements can include higher wages and improved benefits. This power can influence both local and national elections.

As a reference point, one can look at the British National Health Care System. Founded in 1948, this system was the first completely free healthcare system. It was made available on the basis of citizenship rather than the payment of fees or insurance. The system brought hospitals, doctors, nurses and dentists together under one service. Thus, it created one of the world’s largest employers. BBC

Since its inception, it has grown in both costs and in employees. Likewise, the occupations and their roles in providing healthcare has changed in the system. Medical provider activities are being diverted from doctors to others such as nurses. BBC

The British system’s budget ballooned to twelve times larger than when it started after inflation is taken into account. Also, there was a 3.4 percent increase in annual cost. BBC In England, essentially 30 cents on the dollar is spent on Universal Health Care. Within the system, due to the increase costs, co-pays were added for prescriptions. Also, likely in part to save money, people are sent home promptly after procedures. BBC

Conclusion

Some advocating for Universal Healthcare have an alternative motive. Its creation would empower un-elected officials to literally have the the power of life and death. Those in charge of such a system can literally control a country’s population without affording citizenry any protections. Such individuals can control many people’s occupations. This could include whether they are allowed to become a doctor or the amount of their salary.

Such individuals can control whether one will recover from their infirmities. They can further determine both the nature and extent and duration of one’s treatment. The people in charge impose ideologies which have nothing to do with good medical practices and impose them upon patients.

Thus, adopting Universal Healthcare is tantamount to abdicating your rights and assigning them to a King. Kings, however, are not always benign; they can be tyrannical. Thus, the adoption of Universal Healthcare poses cautionary tale that requires one to be careful of what they wish for.

Be well!!

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