#CanadaWAITS For Single Payer Healthcare

This is for all those people who just love the idea of single payer healthcare. They believe having the government take over a country's medical system is the right thing to do because, well, healthcare is a human right and thus should be free. Well, let's just go back to kindergarten and relearn the concept that nothing is free in this world. Not even your parents'or your government's love.

A new hashtag was created called #CanadaWAITS by a Canadian author, André Picard. He wanted to hear how Canadians fared with their government run healthcare. And did he get an earful. His twitter page is filled with hundreds of people's stories who waited months, even years to be seen and treated by doctors.

Total time from referral to OR: 2.5 years in which every step patient takes is in excruciating pain; rationing of ORs means #CanadaWAITS https://t.co/XeXRvky91k

— Deepa Soni, MD (@drdeepasoni) November 4, 2017

In the meantime, over in the UK, where they are so proud of their single payer system that they featured it in the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics, the government is starting to play its inevitable role as rationer in chief. The National Health Service has decided that patients who are obese or actively smoking cannot have elective surgery unless the patient fixes these defects in their personality. Granted this will take place in only one small district. However, the district is expected to save £68 million. And if you're the government who is paying everybody's medical bills, you're going to try to find savings anywhere you can, even denying healthcare for people who are less desirable because of their social habits.

So next time you attend a Bernie Sanders rally, just remember that single payer healthcare sounds great on paper. But you totally lose control of your medical care to some faceless bureaucrat who couldn't care less if you don't get timely care as long as it saves them money.