“The path of wisdom avoids extremes,†but “you have to go a little crazy to keep from going totally insane.†So today we’ll entertain an excursion to the fringes.
An editorial in the Asheville Citizen-Times states what many in Asheville believe. Evil capitalists in the free-market health care system would literally bleed every American dry to maximize profit. The cure, as you have heard, is to implement a strategy where just government, infallible by decree and foreordination, will make wise decisions and take care of people; especially CHILDREN, with free money. This has been tried in Cuba with outstanding results.
Representing the other extreme, “Frank Rizzo†directs readers to the web site of investigative journalists who took a camera to Cuba and counted flies, roaches, and feces in medical facilities. (Note the sponsors.) Whaddya say, America? How about rides in a wheelbarrow to a blown-out maternity ward for a sledge-hammer C-section?
Only too few publicly state the problem with, and not the cure for, healthcare in the US is over-regulation.
A grammar-school technique of assessing the relative success of economic systems is to look at how much US Foreign Aid a country receives. Cuba, unfortunately, is deemed by the UN and the US to be so messed up politically, eight-digit humanitarian donations are aimed more at social justice than medical relief.
