Regarding Universal Health Care

I heard a great explanation of how universal health care works this morning, so I thought I'd paraphrase it and pass it along to you. If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that the SCHIP bill and Hillary Clinton's health care plan are both universal health care, so it's a real issue that affects you right now. Here's how it works.

When something is offered for free, the demand skyrockets. Universal health care would provide 'free' -- though all this 'free' stuff would be paid for by increasing your taxes -- medical services, so the demand for those medical services would skyrocket with no limits.

With unlimited demand for those 'free' services, the costs would skyrocket, too, which means your taxes would skyrocket. When people finally decided they'd have enough of the tax increases and the government couldn't raise them anymore without causing open revolt, the only other way to control costs would be to start limiting the availability of medical services. There would be limits placed on the number of operations, prescriptions, and other services that would be available to Americans, which would mean people would have to wait in line until their turn came up.

In order to enforce these limitations, the government would then have to determine who is most deserving of the limited medical services available. At that point, you would start seeing things like smokers being denied treatment because they're less deserving than non-smokers, fat people being denied treatments because they're less deserving than slim people, and so on.

So, the end result is huge tax costs for your 'free' health care, long wait times, denial of treatment based on who is more 'deserving', and government deciding who those 'deserving' people are.

Here's a personal example. Last year, a new hair styling place opened up near my house. Their grand opening promotion was free haircuts on the first day. I showed up a few minutes before it opened that day, and found a line of about 25 people already formed. By the time I got in the door and got my name on their list, another 25 people were in line behind me, and the wait time for those people was over 3 hours! This was for a haircut...do you want this to happen for critical medical care?

This explanation of universal health care is not speculation...this has actually happened in places like Canada and Europe. This is what you will get if SCHIP is signed into law. This is what you will get if Hillary becomes President and gets her way with health care.

Is it really what you want? I didn't think so.

There's my two cents.