Obamacare

¿Está en los planes de Obama? No lo sé. Sin duda es uno de los preceptos más sagrados de los demócratas.

Es muy llamativo, ya lo dije varias veces por acá. Para comprobar empíricamente si la idea funciona, no tienen más que agarrar el auto y manejar unas cuantas horas hasta la frontera con Canadá.

Max Borders sostiene que la socialización del sistema de salud de EEUU se va a llevar a cabo en tres pasos. Espero que esté equivocado:

We'll have Medicaid for the poor, Medicare for the elderly and Obamacare for everyone else. What do we call this trifecta? Socialized medicine. As people believe they're getting something for "free" they will consume, consume, consume—going to an MD at the slightest sign of the sniffles. The costs of health care will appear in the form of higher taxes. Doctors, facing an army of healthcare consumers with Obamacare expense accounts, will have incentives to treat patients, well, expensively. That is, until the proverbial chickens come home to roost.

Sooner or later, after taxes have gone up and up to meet demand for "free" healthcare, the government will run out of budget. They'll start rationing. They'll have to tell you what you can and can't have—just as they do in Britain, Canada and Cuba. In Britain, people wait 11 months for a hip operation. In Canada, the mean waiting time for psychiatric care is 18.6 weeks, 56 days for an MRI, 17.6 weeks for surgery. In Cuba the information is privy only to Michael Moore.