“A health service that is free and guarantees good service accessible to all … This precious good should not be lost. It must be maintained and everyone should be committed to this. Because everyone needs it …,” he said. Pope Francis, July 11, 2021. Go here to read the rest.
“A health service that is paid for by taxpayers and guarantees mediocre service with long wait times to all …”
Fixed that for you Holiness.
You can promise unicorns to the people too, your holiness. Doesn’t mean it’ll actually happen though.
It Works In Canada. Recent report. More Than 10,000 Canadian Died [April 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020] Waiting For Free Health Care.
The following on CA likely applies to regressives everywhere.
Joel Kotkin, “What California is creating can be best described as oligarchic socialism, a form of collectivism that combines hierarchy with ‘equity,’ regulation with oligopoly, and progressive intentions with feudal results. Like so much else, the China virus panic accelerated this trend, vastly enriching the tech elite, while turning much of the working and middle classes dependent on what Marx called ‘the proletarian alms bag.’”
Benny Hill had some of the best depictions of socialized British healthcare, on his show. Solzhenitsyn’s CANCER WARD always replays in my mind when I am forced to experience current healthcare in USA.
My Dad went to a doctor 3 times in his whole life of 85 years. He would’ve lived longer had he skipped that 3rd visit.
Only recently came across a years old story of “most miserable” US cities to live in, where one measure of miserableness is the number of residents (including illegals) lacking health insurance. Socialist metrics demand socialist solutions, as we drown in debt and dysfunction.
In Australia, Medicare provides free health cover and you can pretty much go your whole life without paying for a doctor visit or hospital visit. It subsidises private care to a certain extent…
But…here’s the reality: taxpayers are funding the “free” public system (this “free” thing irks me) then ontop of this paying for personal private cover to take the burden off the public system. It’s an expensive cost for a family. Many do rely on the public system but it is a hit and miss depending on where you live. The chances you take by relying purely on public healthcare has its risks: long waiting times for surgery (you are put on waiting list for things deemed not emegency), impossible wait times in emergency, for pregnancy they discharge women in some hospitals after a few hours of giving birth, an inconsistent pool of GPs whereby they bulk bill the tax payer for each patient visit with little accountability with the quality of care they provide, over-worked under resourced hospital staff (nurses and doctors) because many would rather work in the private sector because of working conditions, public hospitals waiting for years for upgrade to ammenities because it’s a very very costly exercise…So many issues with a purely public funded system. Even for a relatively smaller population like Australia compared to say the US, the public funded healthcare system is riddled problems on the quality of care that is on offer. So I can imagine the issues of public healthcare in population the size of the US. Creating this Utopian public healthcare system that is top notch is near impossible. I’m not sure a country on earth has succeeded. All good health to the Pope but I hope the Pope realises his latest stay in hospital was not “free” and that his nurses, doctors and the hospital room he was staying on cost money…
Medical care, “free” or otherwise, has become its own bureaucracy; partially or entirely molded by government interventions. I find the whole experience off-putting, impersonal and demeaning. The entire model has been warped, like all else government has improved. Free healthcare can only become Cuban healthcare.
So the pope believes es that the mission of the church is to make the world a better place. False gospel=false church.
“A health service that is free and guarantees good service accessible to all … This precious good should not be lost. It must be maintained and everyone should be committed to this. Because everyone needs it
The Pope also favors cheap air fares, to be achieved by the suspension of gravity.