Socialized medicine always results in rationed medicine.
I honestly do not understand how those proposing publicly-funded medical care don't understand this. Their plan: Increase demand by making medical care "free" (not free, but whatever). Do NOTHING to increase supply of medical care. What happens is that the demand moves up for the medical care, and the supply does not move, creating a shortage between the demand and the supply:
Under market forces, "a Market Shortage occurs when there is excess demand- that is quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied. In this situation, consumers won't be able to buy as much of a good as they would like. In response to the demand of the consumers,
producers will raise both the price of their product and the quantity they are willing to supply. The increase in price will be too much for some consumers and they will no longer demand the product. Meanwhile the increased quantity of available product will satisfy other consumers. Eventually equilibrium will be reached."
http://www.econport.org/content/handbook/Equilibrium/surplus-and-shortage.html
But of course the price increase is not allowed under socialized medical care so the only - ONLY - remaining option is a shortage, i.e., rationing.
Why does America not have single-payer healthcare? Because single payer plans like the UK's NHS and Canada's national healthcare system are running into the same exploding financial problems that the United States is having due to the tremendous costs of new technologies and new expensive drugs. Those systems are not handling the growth in expenses well either.
But they react differently. Instead of rapidly building new facilities and installing new high tech machines as occurs in every city in the United States, the UK and Canada slow things down with budget creep. They can't commit political suicide with huge tax increases that would hurt their economies so they incrementally pass increases. That significantly delays but doesn't prevent new technologies coming into play. Most cities in the US have more MRI and PET scanners than entire Canadian provinces.
It's a form of government rationing because budget restrictions create a shortage for everyone in the system, resulting in waiting lists that some patients never get off. Their citizens mostly accept that for non-emergencies because fortunately, as in the US, most people don't require sophisticated or advanced medical care. When they cannot accept it, they leave the system and fund their own private healthcare.
https://www.newsweek.com/quora-question-why-single-payer-healthcare-wont-work-611168
Rationing means waiting much longer for medical care, and assignment of care based on things such as age, overall health, related medical conditions, etc.
In other words, letting some die because there is just not enough medical care to go around. Anybody who denies this is an idiot, a liar, or both.
Further, the undeniable fact as to technological advances in medical care is this: Those advances come almost exclusively through medicine in the United States, NOT the government-run systems. Why? Profit motive. The publicly-funded medical care countries are relying on the United States to investigate, research, develop and market new surgery techniques, microsurgery, new drugs, etc. so that they can then obtain the new medical advances and ration them due to the excess demand compared to supply.
While there are many opinions about our nation’s health care system (particularly in Washington), there’s one overwhelming area of consensus — the United States leads the world in medical innovation.
In addition to the best and brightest practicing medicine and state-of-art medical facilities, we have benefited from having the best and, usually, the earliest access to the latest medical technologies and innovations. In large part, this is because they were discovered, developed and produced here in America.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medi...3J-FD-3ZY1bMPD-Wz3jedQmPGFeb2pbPpjon0HRibkq8X
Stem cell research, microsurgery, new cancer medicines, HIV combination drug treatments, new insulin for diabetics, robotic surgery, research as to the effect medications have on our health - all from the United States.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/17594
So Bernie's plan is to ration medical care, kill people, and stop the amazing advances in medicine. Too bad his theories were not in practice 50 years ago - he would probably be dead from his heart attack and we would be spared his idiocy.
