Health Care: November 2007 Archives
Gratifyingly, readers of this blog have responded with some great comments to the post Are We Smarter & Better than the British on National Health Care . . . ?
Thank you! Keep them coming, and please take the poll located at the end of this post -- thanks again!
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?
~ See Wesley J. Smith's Secondhand Smoke post about nationalized health care and the necessary evil of rationing . . .
Liberal Values makes good start in defending Democratic health care plans against a slew of conservative bloggers, but -- it doesn't go far enough. It's start, but that's all it is.
I'm sure the post is correct that there are significant differences between the British & Canadian plans and the plans advocated by Democratic candidates.
But this raises a host of troubling questions:
