"When government is in charge of health care, the result is not that everyone
gets access to experimental treatments, but that people get less of the care
that is absolutely necessary. At any given time, just under a million Canadians
are on waiting lists to receive care, and one in eight British patients must
wait more than a year for hospital treatment. Canadian Karen Jepp, who gave
birth to quadruplets last month, had to fly to Montana for the delivery:
neonatal units in her own country had no room. Rationing in Britain is so severe
that one hospital recently tried saving money by not changing bed-sheets between
patients. Instead of washing sheets, the staff was encouraged to just turn them
over, British papers report. The wait for an appointment with a dentist is so
long that people are using pliers to pull out their own rotting teeth"
Taking government care from the public profit sector and putting it in the public government sector, means exchanging profit concerns for political ones. If a capitalist system makes decisions based on profit concerns, government run systems make choices based on political concerns. This isn't a clear advantage in my book.
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