“Some people erroneously assume that under a form of socialized health care called a single-payer insurance plan, all medical services will not change, and that individuals will no longer have to foot the bill for the services or insurance premiums.
“Under the single-payer (government) insurance plan, instead of directly refusing to authorize a specific treatment or specific doctor for a specific individual, the government insurance plan will simply not cover it. Consequently the patient will be forced to either not receive the care or to pay cash after searching out a doctor willing to work outside the system, the state, or the country. However, the patient will still be forced to pay higher taxes for a plan that does not meet their needs.
“And if we measure a health-care system by how well it serves its sick citizens, American medicine excels. Five-year cancer survival rates bear this out. For leukemia, the American survival rate is almost 50 percent; the European rate is just 35 percent. Esophageal carcinoma: 12 percent in the United States, 6 percent in Europe. The survival rate for prostrate cancer is 81.2 percent here, yet 61.7 percent in France and down to 44.3 percent in England-a striking variation. “(Gratzer, City Journal, Summer 2007)
“Under any kind of socialized health care system, instead of paying doctors and insurance companies directly for our health care, we will pay the government exorbitant taxes, and we will pay with the loss of our freedoms and potentially with our lives!”
Private and Home Educators of California
Legal-Legislative Update Jan/Feb 2008
P.O. Box 730
Lincoln, CA 9548-0730
www.pheofca.org
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