With shortages and rationing of course!
In 1994 Hillary did get one part of Hillary Health done, The Vaccines for Children Program was started in 1994. With this program added, the government buys over 55% of children’s vaccines. As a result of their dictating prices, low profits and huge exposure to lawsuits, fewer and fewer companies are still in the business. In 2004 there were only 4 companies left. This has resulted in shortages of children’s’ vaccines of up to 2 years. They intended to catch up with those children’s innoculations when it came available, but many certainly fell through the cracks and are at risk. Here is a good NCPA article.
We now face the risk of the Mexican Flu pandemic and are scrambling to buy enough vaccine. The problem is that we no longer have the manufacturing capacity to make much of it here. The government drove them out. We import 80% of the flu vaccine that we use, which would be fine except for one thing: if the pandemic continues, the foreign governments that have the manufacturing will not let it come here until they are sure that they have enough for their own people as was reported in a recent AP story. Thanks a lot for the good intentions.
So, here is the government involving itself in health care. There are already shortages, upcoming rationing and probably death. Yeah, let’s expand this with ObamaCare. Brilliant! After all, we have many fine examples of governments’ success in healthcare: the veterans home downstate, Delaware Psychiatric Center, the VA hospital system (I hear it is better now but they did have the dirty colonoscopy instruments with possible hepatitis and AIDS exposure recently), Walter Reed and the Smyrna Prison (remember the brother with 2 heads) to name a few of the more successful programs.
To paraphrase a Democrat Congressman from Ohio:
–Beam me up, Scotty. There is no intelligent life down here.–
“The US government took a chunk of medical care over already. How has that turned out?”
Steve, it has turned out great! Google all the customer satisfaction surveys being done. Public rates way better than public. Sorry.
The public option will go the same way as Medicaid and Medicare, good programs structured to fail.
As for polls, it always easy to be happy spending another person’s money.
Without radically reducing provider payments and huge taxpayer subsidies the public option will not work.
Listen to http://delawarerepublican.wordpress.com/drtv/
Mike Protack
Bill,
I am not sure that I understand your comment. Are you saying that the customer satisfaction surveys say that people are happy that there is a shortage of vaccines, that we have to hope that foreign countries will share vaccine with us and that patients were happy being exposed to hepatitis and AIDS at the VA.
Or maybe it is that the VA patients were responding to a survey question that asked if asked if they were happy that they were not the ones who were exposed. And in that regard, they were very satisfied.
Steve, sorry if I was confusing. When you said “the government took over a chunk of medical care” I thought you meant Medicare and all so that’s why I chimed in with all the polls say Public Health Insurance like Medicare rates higher in customer satisfaction surveys. Do the Goggle. No doubt people are very very pleased with Public Medicare, VA, the whole works. No doubt about it.
On the vaccination thing, I don’t think Vaccine For Children ruined the industry. Center For Disease Control administers the program it has done great things for everybody. Here is the CDC site -it’s a good thing.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/default.htm
Your source NCPA National Center For Policy Analysis – is dedicated to finding private sector alternatives to government programs including Social Security. Naturally they would not favor Government vaccine programs for children.
I think it’s a stretch to blame Uncle Sam.
“Public rates way better than public”? What was that supposed to mean, billholt? Doing the “Goggle” didn’t help me.