10 Reasons to Keep Government Out of Healthcare

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3. Your care and medicine will be rationed

In every country with government-run health care, government health boards decide who is allowed to have what drugs, procedures, and treatments. This socialized method inevitably results in deteriorating health services. For instance, Medicare patients were recently informed they would be denied virtual colonoscopies.

Resources will be stretched thinner than ever before, and patients will be denied care in order to to keep costs down. We know too well how they ration drugs under a socialized healthcare system. In some countries a patient has to bribe nurses and doctors to give him the medicine he urgently needs. No wonder, the so-called Affordable Healthcare Act included a $1.1 billion research provision so that, “those items, procedures, and interventions… that are found to be less effective and in some cases, more expensive, will no longer be prescribed.”

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