Universal Health Care Equals Hard-Core Rationing . . . ?

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If you're like you me, a normal everyday intelligent but non-expert person, you probably find the issues surrounding health care to be wide, large, complicated, confusing, and -- last but not least -- highly, seriously, contentious (and for good and obvious reasons):

First see: Michael Moore attacks Dr. Sanjay Gupta's Criticism of SICKO.
Then see: Dr. Sanjay Gupta's response to Michael Moore.
Finally, check out the debate between these two men on Larry King Live.

You don't have to be an health care expert to see that the current system is rife with problems (problems that are even more grave than "too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country").

While I think the "solution" is harder to see, others think the answer is more or less straightforward, i.e., more government involvement and control . . .

But is that solution really so clear?

Even the leading Democratic candidates and their supporters are taking pains to distance themselves, at least somewhat, from the current Canadian and British national health care plans (i.e., Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois and former Sen. John Edwards of South Carolina all have staked out positions sharply at odds with Moore’s approach. But none of them is eager to have that fact dragged into the spotlight ~ Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angles Times).

If you want to understand why the leading Democratic candidates distancing themselves from the current British and Canadian National Health Care Plans, I'd start with this talk Stuart Browning gave at the Cato Institute's Health Care on Film event:

Stuart Browning, a documentary filmmaker and a fellow at the Moving Picture Institute, is a contributor to FreeMarketCure.

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