| Friends - Thanks to your willingness to support the "Free Our Health Care NOW!" petition
where over 740,000 Americans have voiced their opposition to
nationalized health care and the increased cost, reduced access and
lower quality which it threatens to impose on us! At his press conference Wednesday night, President Obama admitted that the government will be intervening between you and your doctor. Only
to prevent "unnecessary" care, he said but it will be the government,
not the doctor who decides what's necessary. This is worrisome! The nationalized health care plan proposed by President Obama calls for rationed care. Rationed care requires that patients forego medical procedures which fail to meet federal approval. Under
nationalized health care, a bureaucrat will have the power to delay or
deny care to a patient without regard for the patient's medical needs
or for the physician's advice. In Canada and the United Kingdom, both of which have adopted a nationalized health care system, patients' access
to care is far more restricted and wait times are far longer than in
the United States. Consider the following wait times: - Better late... In
a recent survey of adults suffering from a chronic condition, 74% of
U.S. patients met with a specialist within four weeks of scheduling an
appointment. By comparison, only 42% of British patients and just 40%
of Canadian patients were able to meet with a specialist in the first
four weeks suffering from their condition.
- ...than Never? In
the same survey, 33% of patients in the United Kingdom and 42% of
patients in Canada waited for more than 2 months before meeting with a
specialist to address their chronic condition. In the United States,
only 10% of patients waited for longer than 2 months before meeting
with a specialist.
- Hazardous Delay. Canadian wait times exceed the clinically reasonable wait time for every medical specialty .
For neurosurgery, for instance, although the clinically reasonable wait
time is 5.8 weeks, the average Canadian wait time exceeds 31 weeks.
Orthopedic surgery is even worse. The clinically reasonable wait time
is 11 weeks; Canadian patients waiting on orthopedic surgery wait on
average almost 37 weeks before they receive treatment. http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Canadian_UK_HealthSystems.pdf
Rationed
care affects all patients. In Canada and the United Kingdom patients
have reduced access to health care providers, longer waits for
examinations and fewer available treatment options. As it has in Canada
and the United Kingdom, nationalized health care in the United States
threatens to reduce the quality of care and therefore, the quality of
life for all Americans. What can you do about this? - Use the Action Pack http://actionpack.ncpa.org to access our Learning/Teaching Tools about health care so that you can educate your friends, family and neighbors.
- Track the progress of the "Free Our Health Care NOW!" petition by going to http://actionpack.ncpa.org and clicking the 'ticker' link.
- Share the petition through viral networking by clicking on the icon of your preferred social media.
| | | Thank you again for your support of the "Free Our Health Care NOW!" and for fighting against nationalized health care. Jeanette Nordstrom
National Center for Policy Analysis
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