Shouldn’t Confuse ‘Socialized’ Medicine With ‘Socialism’--They Are Not the Same Thing
Before basking in the glow of Bernstein’s vision of “a drastically changed health-care system,” we should look at the facts in major industrialized countries that have national health-care systems offering citizens health care not based on their ability to pay.
In fact, such countries as Great Britain and Sweden that have national health financing programs do not effectively provide a paradise of universal health care because delays in providing care and arbitrary bureaucratic restrictions that effectively ration care conspire to exclude a significant number of Brits and Swedes from receiving medical care.
Trading one bad system of health-care delivery for another is no bargain.
SYLVAIN FRIBOURG, M.D.
Panorama City
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