By the way, all currently run Government Health care IS rationed also. That INCLUDES Military health Care. Active duty which gets the best treatment still does not have access to new procedures or medications until or unless the Government decides they should, a slow cumbersome process at the best of times. Medicare and Medicaid are also rationed.
The VA hospital is a good example of a reason to NOT have the government run health care. It has improved much over the last few years but its still not as good as it should be. A good friend of mine is a marine who got his knee all screwed up in AFG. They kept pushing him off and making him wait for the proper treatment. It took 2 months for him to get to see a doctor back home. Then it took 4 more months for the specialist. Another 2 months for the surgery, but they got him into physical therapy pretty fast.
Another good example is the poor handling of the H1N1 vaccine distribution.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it -Someone Smart
i disagree with your comment on h1n1, i saw a hearing on c-span and the Doctors and scientists questioned said that for some reason, unbeknown to them, h1n1 does not grow in their culture very fast...10 times slower than any flu vaccine they've had to make or grow in the past....is what the scientists are saying....this is why the doses are so much short of their purchase for the vaccine.
maybe this is not what you were commenting on? and you were commenting on how big corporations got supply before hospital workers did? yep, that was a mess up, for certain.