Friday, March 27, 2020

COVID-19 Is Killing The Case For Socialized Medicine

If you follow the mainstream media/Democratic narrative, the pandemic has laid bare the weaknesses of the U.S. health care system.

Sarah Collins of the Commonwealth Fund, a liberal health care organization, claimed that "We are much more vulnerable to the kinds of spread of illness. because so many people don't have health insurance coverage in the United States. About 30 million people are currently uninsured."

The left-wing "Explanatory" news site Vox.com said that: "High health care costs and low medical capacity made the US uniquely vulnerable to the coronavirus."

That's well below the global average of 4.5%. In the UK, which has the health care system of Bernie Sanders' dreams, the death rate is almost 5%. It's higher than the U.S. in the Netherlands, in Sweden, in Denmark, in Switzerland.

So what about deaths as a share of the total population? Here again, the U.S. health care system is performing better.

A report out late last year by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security found that the U.S. was better prepared for a pandemic than any of the other 195 countries it examined.

The mantra among socialized medicine advocates is that the U.S. spends more for health care but delivers lower quality than other industrialized nations.


https://issuesinsights.com/2020/03/27/covid-19-is-killing-the-case-for-socialized-medicine/

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