BASIC FALLACIES AND LIES OF THE LIBERAL ARGUMENT THAT USA HEALTHCARE IS WORSE THAN EUROPE'S

Liberals love to make the following argument:

"Europeans spend half what we do per year - per capita. And they live longer.
We spend twice as much - and have 46 million uninsured."

They say this to promote SOCIALSM and the takeover of 1/7th of our economy.

It's WRONG; it's based on errors, fallacies and lies.

• ERROR 1 - conflating health insurance with health care.

Every person in the USA is entitled to healthcare in a hospital regardless of his ability to pay - IT'S FEDERAL LAW. All hospitals which accept federal tax dollars for support - and almost every single one does - must treat EVERYONE.

LIBERALS ARE WRONG OR LYING WHEN THEY SAY OR IMPLY AMERICANS AREN'T GETTING HEALTHCARE.

Lack of insurance doesn't mean lack of care.

• ERROR 2 - conflating per capita/per year spending and average life-spans with efficiency of public health.

People die.

Every single one.

Sooner - or later.

This doesn't always have to do with healthcare.

(AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO DO WITH HEALTHCARE INSURANCE COMPANIES REAPING HUGE PROFITS BY CHARGING A LOT AND DENYING CARE - AS THE LIBERALS WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE! THEIR PROFITS ARE ONLY ABOUT 2%!)

Length of years has a lot to do with OBESITY AND DIET. And VIOLENCE.

A group of people which has MORE fat people with bad diets who shoot at each other will have shorter life-spans than a group of people who are slimmer, eat better and shoot each other less.

(ALSO: The USA counts extreme preemies who die within months as DEATHS where in many European nations they do not; they call them failed pregnancies. This makes our nation's infant mortality rate higher and average life-span shorter.)

And a group of people which cares more about its health and is MORE NEUROTIC about its health and appearance will spend more on its healthcare OVERALL - BY PURCHASING MORE SERVICES - than a group of people who do not, OR WHO CANNOT BECAUSE THEIR HEALTHCARE IS SOCIALIZED!

WE SPEND MORE IN PART BECAUSE WE CAN!

• Error 3 - We spend more per capita per year than Europeans because of the unbridled greed of unbridled insurance companies and unbridled pharmaceuticals.
  

Liberals are essentially arguing that we spend more because a lot goes into the pockets of insurers and not to doctors and nurses or actual care.

This is a lie.

As I wrote above, insurance companies do not make very large profits. That's just a plain simple truth.

And pharma companies spend BILLIONS developing a SINGLE drug and many do not pass muster. To pay for the research which leads to life-saving and life-extending medicine, they need a high return on the drugs which do pass muster.

Killing Big Pharma would NOT kill greedy capitalists; it would be committing GENOCIDE against people who need new drugs to be developed.

We do spend more because of the GREED OF LAWYERS: we have a runaway tort system which allows lawyers to get billions each year from lawsuits against our healthcare system operators. Defensive medicine is extra expensive.

If we reined in the lawyers we'd save BILLIONS - ENOUGH TO INSURE ALMOST EVERYONE WHO WANTS INSURANCE BUT CAN'T AFFORD IT WITH VOUCHERS!

Tort reform isn't even on the list of healthcare reform,s suggested by Obama and the Democrats because the Democrat Party is owned and operated by the lawyers and the "tax-getters" - the SEIU, AFSCME and the NEA.

• Our healthcare system is great.

• Our doctors and nurses are the best.

• Our pharmaceutical industry is fantastic.

• REPEAT: Our healthcare system is great.

We mustn't let the Democrats and the vultures and parasites they represent destroy it.