HERE IS AN IMPORTANT PREFACE . . . I AM POLITICALLY CONSERVATIVE!
Let Me Make This Clear, Because I Don’t Want People Confusing Fact With Conjecture.
COMMUNISM IS ABOUT ABSOLUTE GOVERNMENT CONTROL – PERIOD!
The Greatest Threat To A Communist Society Is Any Form Of Independent Freedom.
In A Communist Society . . . Big Brother Controls All, where any Freedom of Thought, Action & Decision Threatens the System to its Core.
BUT I ALSO DON’T LIKE USING THE DEFINITION . . . CAPITALIST SYSTEM:
I Much Prefer to Designate the Type of System we Currently Enjoy, which Has Freed the World, Making America the Freest & Most Successful Socio/Economic Political Configuration on the Planet (And In History) . . . AS A SYSTEM BASED UPON FREE ENTERPRISE.
The Term Capitalism Denotes A Harshness, which Does Not Properly Portray who we are as a People or as a Society, Where Free Enterprise Is A Clear Definition . . . Describing How we are Free to Innovate, Take Risks, Win, Lose, Generate Jobs, Create Wealth, Enjoy Wealth – Etc.
IN COMMUNISM . . . NONE OF THE PRECEDING IS TRUE OR AVAILABLE:
I Continuously Write About Socialism Being A Pre-Cursor To Communism, which is True, But Not Inevitable, just as “Capitalism” is Not a Guarantee to Social/Political Economic Freedom, Where With Absolute Capitalism, the Most Aggressive & Best-Connected People Get to Control all the Wealth, while Regular People Work as Vassals for the Rich, Which Was The British System That Drove America To Become An Independent Constitutional Republic 250-Years Ago.
Don’t Think America Does Not Enjoy Or Prosper From Various Forms Of Socialism.
In America . . . Every Child is Guaranteed a FREE Education from Kindergarten to High School Graduation. American People are Promised Safety, Security, Good Infrastructure (Roads, Bridges– Etc), Free Food in the Guise of Certificates (Food Stamps) and a Form of Shelter (Housing) for the Homeless who Do Not Want to Live on the Streets.
So Who Pays For All The Above Free Stuff & Much More?
The People With Means Pay For Those Without . . . Through Their Taxes . . . Try to Imagine a Society where all the Above would Only be Available to the People who Could Afford to Pay for the Luxury of Good Roads & Bridges, Safety from Violence Only by Private Security, And No Food Or Shelter For People Who Couldn’t Afford To Eat Or Have A Roof Over Their Heads.
To An Extent – America Is Already Living In A Socialized Society, Which Is Not A Bad Thing.
WHY CAN’T THE PEOPLE ENJOY BOTH?
Problem With The Far LEFT – Their Vision Of Socialism Morphs Into Communism.
I Have American Friends & Relatives Who Live In Gated Communities. They Spend a Great Deal of Money on Healthcare, Above & Beyond the Minimum Cost of Available Partially Subsidized Healthcare, In Itself, Which Is Not All That Affordable. Which I Will Write About Shortly.
People Who Have, Don’t Necessarily Understand The Pain Of Those Who Have-Not.
NOTHING CREATES AFFORDABILITY MORE THAN FREE ENTERPRISE:
The Current Affordability Problem With America & Canada . . . Does Not Lie With Free Enterprise . . . To The Contrary, Free Enterprise Is The Solution. The Real Problem is Unbridled Capitalism, where the Rich & Powerful Have Used Government to Form Oligopolies, which Enable Like-Minded Industries to Control Competition & Prices through Supply Management.
What is the Difference Between Controlled Prices by Government & Controlled Prices by Oligopolies (Private Industries That Rig Free Enterprise)? To Me There Is No Discernible Difference . . . Either Way . . . The People Are Inevitably Ripped-Off.
AMERICAN HEALTHCARE IS GOING TO BE A HUGE CAMPAIGN ISSUE:
Healthcare Providers Cry Poor . . . When Did American Healthcare Stop Being A Calling.
Doctors In America Are Most Often Millionaires. Insurance Companies & Healthcare Providers are Mega Billion-Dollar Businesses, while American Healthcare as a Whole, is a Trillion-Dollar Industry.
American Healthcare Is A Business, and like all Businesses it is Profit Motivated, and in the Case of American Health, it is Owned by Mega Corporations from National Conglomerates in League with Hospitals, Urgent Care Centers, and the Insurance Industry.
Canadian Healthcare Is Privately Managed . . . Mostly Government Paid.
Just Because Republican Pundits Crap On Canadian Healthcare – Doesn’t Make What They Say True.
I’ve Been Following Statements on Fox News About Canadian Healthcare being Equivalent to the Dire System of the Old Soviet Union. I’ve Been Hearing About our Rundown Canadian Hospitals, Antiquated Medical Equipment, and Unavailability to Needed Procedures.
DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR OR READ:
Don’t Think for a Second that there is Not a Multi-Billion-Dollar American Health-Industry Lobby Against Anything that Resembles Socialized Medicine.
Let Me Set the Record Straight from a Position of Personal Knowledge, Since I’ve Had Experiences with Both the American & Canadian Systems.
CANADA DOES NOT OPERATE THIRD WORLD MEDICINE:
Canadian Hospitals Are Just As Modern & Efficient As American Hospitals. Our Doctors are on Average as Good as Doctors Anywhere in the World, and Our Medical Equipment is as Modern as is Available. And In-Spite of Embellished Medical Horror Stories Propagated by American Media, Canadians who Need Emergency Care, Especially in Larger Cities, Generally Get The Care They Need When They Need-It.
The Canadian System Isn’t Perfect . . . But It Is Also Not As Bad As Portrayed.
While it is True that the Canadian Medical Association Hasn’t Kept-Up with Graduating, Training & Licensing Nearly as Many Doctors as they Should Have, which Has Led to Doctor Shortages, it is Also True that Unbridled Immigration into Canada Has Placed an Enormous Burden on the Medical Establishment. The Same Can Be Said About America.
It Is Also True . . . That Elective Surgeries in Canada are Often Placed Upon the Back Burner, Sometimes Taking as Long as a Year for a Procedure to Take Place. But it is Also True . . . That No Matter The Issue . . . From a Simple Trip to the Doctor to Complicated Tests, Treatments & Surgeries . . . No Canadian Lays Awake At Night Worrying How They Are Going To Pay.
In Canada . . . Thousands Of Canadians Die Each Year Waiting For Treatments, But So Do Americans, Unbeknownst to Many, because of a Dirty Little Secret which the Health Industry Nor the Government Want to Publicize . . . It is Called Death-By-Queue.
It Is Also True . . . That Once A Canadian Reaches The Age Of 65, He or She Literally Pays Nothing for all Prescribed Drugs . . . and Don’t Worry themselves Sick About How they will Pay for What they Need to Stay Healthy & Alive.
Canada’s System Is Not Perfect & Needs Improving . . . But What Doesn’t?
IN-SPITE OF WHAT YOU’VE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE:
There Is A Lot Of Good In Both Systems . . . But Neither I Nor Most Canadians Would Trade.
TODAY IS THE FIFTEENTH OF THE MONTH:
There Is So Much Media Mis-Information On Both Sides – Honest Opinions Are Essential.
In My Lifetime (76-Years) . . . To my Recollection, the World Has Never Been as Unsettled as it is Now, Between the Wars Amongst Ukraine & Russia, the Total Upheaval in the Middle East, the Propaganda War Against Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, the Onslaught of Islamism & Communism on our North American Shores, Not to Mention the American Midterm Elections that Can Turn our Nations Upside-Down & Inside-Out.
Then Of Course . . . There is the Great Anticipated New World Order Attached to AI and the Unlimited Prospect AI Provides for Individuals (Rich, Powerful & Government) . . . To Use Computer Generated Information To Change The Entire World As We Know-It.
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If I Could Entertain People With What I Write, which Many Readers Might Feel More Comfortable Reading . . . Would That Be Good? Or should I Convey the Unvarnished Truth on Important Issues, Which Far Too Many News Media Prefer Not To Do.
You & I Both Know The Answer.
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3 Comments
In this article you mentioned that we haven’t trained enough doctors in North America. In reality we have trained many high-tuition paying foreign students who returned to their homelands upon graduation. Our universities continually choose foreign students over domestic based solely on revenue potential and in spite our endemic shortages of doctors in rural and urban locales.
I know of two Medical graduates who were refused work in N.B., their home province. One went to Ireland and the other, I’m not sure, but they are not in N.B.
As an American living in Alberta, I have used both systems successfully. In America, the medical system works as an oligopoly. I learned this after almost dying from pneumonia. Into my hospital room walked a lady from accounting to ask how I was going to pay for my 11 days. I asked her how much different groups paid: cash payers -$3,000/day; Insurance companies -$6,000/day. Why the diff? Insurance companies don’t have good negotiators, she said. Collusion & ignorance are a better answer