Introduction
Only nine months into his administration and Barack Obama is struggling to transform our healthcare system into a complete disaster. His motive is to nationalize the U.S. healthcare system and implement single-payer government health insurance, much like what exists in Canada or the U.K. As Americans we must question him with boldness and speak without fear: “Why Mr. President, why do we need to completely transform our healthcare system?” And of course progressives like Mr. Obama will answer: “We need to ensure that no insurance company can drop your coverage”. Well let’s analyze that, if we have an inefficient government system where more people are denied treatment than under a private system, we will have more deaths.
In nations with socialized medicine, everyone is covered, but not everyone is treated. Every year many are denied the treatment and care that they need to live. In Canada, people die waiting for heart surgery operations, and there are six month waits for cataract surgeries. A drug called Avastin, used to treat colon cancer, costs $50,000 per year. The governments of Canada and the United Kingdom do not allow the use of this drug because of its high costs. Therefore in those countries the death rate due to colon cancer is 39%-41% compared to 25%-32% in the United States.
Medicare DENIES Treatment!
A major bill is being proposed by the United States Congress called the “United States National Health Act” or the “Medicare for All Act”, which would essentially nationalize the entire healthcare industry. This act documented as H.R. 676 says in is preamble: “To provide comprehensive health insurance for all United States residents, and for other purposes”. Yes, it is true that with this bill everyone will be covered with health insurance, but it is not guaranteed that all people will receive the treatment they need. In fact, when politicians tell you that we need nationalized healthcare to ensure no one is denied treatment, they fail to acknowledge that their system of Medicare denies more people than private insurance. It’s true look at the below table (Date Range: 03/01/2007-03/10/2008):
| Insurer | Count of Records | Denied Records | Percentage Denied |
| Aetna | 637,239 | 43,317 | 6.80% |
| Anthem | 250,070 | 11,546 | 4.62% |
| Cigna | 263,728 | 9,060 | 3.44% |
| Coventry | 20,487 | 590 | 2.88% |
| Health Net | 4,975 | 193 | 3.88% |
| Humana | 143,026 | 4,142 | 2.90% |
| Medicare | 6,938,431 | 475,566 | 6.85% |
Who denied the highest percentage of people? MEDICARE! So yes, under “Medicare for All” everyone will be insured, but not everyone will receive treatment. More will be denied treatment under nationalized healthcare than under our current, free-market system. Say NO to Obamacare, it is just more government control over all of our lives. The capitalist forces of the free-market will better our healthcare system through competition and honesty, monopolized Obamacare will NOT!
