Wasting Time With Alex

More joys of government run healthcare programs

The left loves to tell us how much better all those socialist nations government run healtcare programs are than ours because they supposedly cover everyone when our system does not. Of course this is plain bullshit. The USSR, one of the most brutal and evil empires ever, had one of the most beautiful Constitutions ever written. It was full of all the stuff that makes the left’s heart strings strum. Espoused all the values of humanity and citizenship. A grand work, but only on paper. The reality on the ground was very different, and the tens of millions were send into exhile for simply not agreeing with the political class and the millions that died or were killed for their beliefs, is ample proof of that. Everyone in the USSR was literate, had healthcare, a job, and was equal. Of course this was all a nice bunch of lies and of no real significance other than to liberal tools that are impressed by what is claimed on paper and not the truth as usual.

What does all of this have to do with healthcare you ask? Well one of the biggest slights of hand by those that want to stick us with socialist government run healthcare is that they are masters of the art of used car sales. They tout all the greatness of these systems, greatness that is usually just on paper of course, and especially the fact that supposedly everyone is covered equally, their paramount concern and fondest desire, in their attempts to make that sale. Of course, the reality is that while on paper everyone is covered, everyone is not really covered when they have to wait so long for service that so many end up dying long before they get to que up (a great cost savings vehicle if there ever was one). But this goes even further than just those that are terminal. Check out how even a simple, but important, thing like births has become a problem that necessitates travel to the evil US for a solution:

Mothers in British Columbia are having a baby boom, but it’s the United States that has to deliver, and that has some proud Canadians blasting their highly touted government healthcare system. “I’m a born-bred Canadian, as well as my daughter and son, and I’m ashamed,” Jill Irvine told FOX News. Irvine’s daughter, Carri Ash, is one of at least 40 mothers or their babies who’ve been airlifted from British Columbia to the U.S. this year because Canadian hospitals didn’t have room for the preemies in their neonatal units.

“It’s a big number and bigger than the previous capacity of the system to deal with it,” said Adrian Dix, a British Columbia legislator, told FOXNews.com. “So when that happens, you can’t have a waiting list for a mother having the baby. She just has the baby.”

Of course who cares if some old geezers, really sick people, or idiots die waiting for care. And it is not an indictment of the system when people have to run across the border to get the care they need. Everyone is covered so that system is better! When we get straddled with a Canadian system we can all go to Mexico for care I guess.