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by Ileana Johnson • March 31,
2018 at 5:00 am
- Although Britons do
have affordable access to primary-care doctors, and everyone
in the UK is covered through high taxes, they are subjected to
extensive waiting periods for specialists, surgeries and
hospitalization. The fact is that many patients die waiting
for treatment.
- Rather than
rejecting the basic free-market principles of the US economy
-- as a 2016 Harvard University survey found that most do --
young Americans would do well to ask themselves why it is that
so many people from countries with socialized medicine flock
to the United States for treatment.
According
to a recent Pew poll, support for universal health care, provided
and paid for by the federal government, is higher among American
millennials than among older generations. (Image source: Mark
Dixon/Blue Lens/Flickr)
According to a recent Pew poll, support for
universal health care, provided and paid for by the federal
government, is higher among American millennials than among older
generations. Young Americans seem to believe that socialized
medicine is a "cure-all" for health-care ills in the
United States, as it ostensibly is elsewhere, such as Canada and
Britain.
Unfortunately, there are facts that would appear to
put this fantasy to rest by the facts -- for instance, the tragic
and untimely death of a 20-year-old British woman in her dorm room
last March. Victoria Hills, a first-year student, died of an ear
infection, after "postpon[ing] visiting her campus general practitioner
because her student loan had not come through and she couldn't
afford the prescription."
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