Should the United States of America have a national health care system?
Socialized medicine, like all forms of socialism, has been a world-wide failure. As people throughout the world from the Soviet Union to South America are learning, socialism cannot work. Socialism is fundamentally incompatible with human nature. Horrible Idea, we do not need another entitlement program in our country. Would you like to be in a line for a kidney or a liver and never get one? How about having innovation limited by promoting the status quo and mediocrity? Don’t fall for utopian ideals which are not achievable. “Throughout the world the story is the same: socialized medicine results in skyrocketing demand for nominally “free” health care, doctors are overburdened, medical services steadily deteriorate, and there are endless waiting lists for health care. In the Soviet Union before the collapse of Communism, anesthetics, painkillers, and most drugs were rationed; 57 percent of hospitals had no hot running water; and it was standard practice to clean needles with steel wool
