COVID-19 is making the failure of nationalized health care painfully obvious

[JGalt]

A startling revelation about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it's forcefully pointing out the failure of "socialized medicine." The US is faring far better than those countries which have nationalized or more socialized healthcare systems.

Take Italy, for example: Their healthcare is provided to all citizens and residents by a mixed public-private system, called the National Health Service. Italy has 3.4 hospital beds/1000 population, while the US has 2.9/1000. Yet their system is stressed to the breaking point because of the pandemic.

How much worse would this be under something like a single-payer system, similar to what the Democrats are running on?

"Government-controlled health-care systems are especially vulnerable to epidemics because, to control costs, they must strip as much overcapacity as they can out of their operations. During the 2017–2018 flu season in Britain, for example, the National Health System was overwhelmed. Patients regularly spent 12 hours in hospital emergency wards awaiting treatment, corridors were jammed with beds, and doctors postponed all but the most urgent surgeries.."

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About American Health Care

 

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A startling revelation about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it's forcefully pointing out the failure of "socialized medicine." The US is faring far better than those countries which have nationalized or more socialized healthcare systems.

Take Italy, for example: Their healthcare is provided to all citizens and residents by a mixed public-private system, called the National Health Service. Italy has 3.4 hospital beds/1000 population, while the US has 2.9/1000. Yet their system is stressed to the breaking point because of the pandemic.

How much worse would this be under something like a single-payer system, similar to what the Democrats are running on?

"Government-controlled health-care systems are especially vulnerable to epidemics because, to control costs, they must strip as much overcapacity as they can out of their operations. During the 2017–2018 flu season in Britain, for example, the National Health System was overwhelmed. Patients regularly spent 12 hours in hospital emergency wards awaiting treatment, corridors were jammed with beds, and doctors postponed all but the most urgent surgeries.."

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About American Health Care

Lol, explain something to me. If your premise is that socialized medicine because of cost control is more vulnerable to epidemics why is it that by your admission the US for-profit healthcare system has fewer beds, to begin with?

More importantly why in the hell do you think the US will be any less overwhelmed with fewer hospital beds?

 

[Asclepias]

A startling revelation about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it's forcefully pointing out the failure of "socialized medicine." The US is faring far better than those countries which have nationalized or more socialized healthcare systems.

Take Italy, for example: Their healthcare is provided to all citizens and residents by a mixed public-private system, called the National Health Service. Italy has 3.4 hospital beds/1000 population, while the US has 2.9/1000. Yet their system is stressed to the breaking point because of the pandemic.

How much worse would this be under something like a single-payer system, similar to what the Democrats are running on?

"Government-controlled health-care systems are especially vulnerable to epidemics because, to control costs, they must strip as much overcapacity as they can out of their operations. During the 2017–2018 flu season in Britain, for example, the National Health System was overwhelmed. Patients regularly spent 12 hours in hospital emergency wards awaiting treatment, corridors were jammed with beds, and doctors postponed all but the most urgent surgeries.."

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About American Health Care

 

[Weatherman2020]

A startling revelation about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it's forcefully pointing out the failure of "socialized medicine." The US is faring far better than those countries which have nationalized or more socialized healthcare systems.

Take Italy, for example: Their healthcare is provided to all citizens and residents by a mixed public-private system, called the National Health Service. Italy has 3.4 hospital beds/1000 population, while the US has 2.9/1000. Yet their system is stressed to the breaking point because of the pandemic.

How much worse would this be under something like a single-payer system, similar to what the Democrats are running on?

"Government-controlled health-care systems are especially vulnerable to epidemics because, to control costs, they must strip as much overcapacity as they can out of their operations. During the 2017–2018 flu season in Britain, for example, the National Health System was overwhelmed. Patients regularly spent 12 hours in hospital emergency wards awaiting treatment, corridors were jammed with beds, and doctors postponed all but the most urgent surgeries.."

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About American Health Care

Italy just didn’t do it right. Next time though!