August 27th, 2008

Merrill Matthews in Townhall.com: The Failures of Government-Run Healthcare

Posted in  Health Care 
Author: Erin Humiston || Location: Lewisville, Texas, USA

IPI resident scholar and health care expert Dr. Merrill Matthews is featured with a brand new op/ed on Townhall.com discussing “The Failures of Government-Run Healthcare.”

“Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, in a rare moment of honesty on what he’d really like to do about health care reform, recently asserted that if we were starting from scratch he would probably choose a single-payer health care system.

That’s a system in which people pay higher taxes and the government pays most medical bills.

Obama’s not alone in that opinion. Filmmaker Michael Moore took his “Sicko” audience to England, among other places, where we learned that doctors in that single-payer system made good salaries, had nice homes and cars, and patients were very satisfied.

But anyone who reads the English press will find a different message, including waiting lines, angry patients, rationed and often subquality care. Consider these recent news stories about England’s National Health Service (NHS) quoted directly from the British press."

To read the full op/ed, please visit TownHall.com.