{"id":1724,"date":"2009-11-21T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/21\/senate-socializtas\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T17:56:03","slug":"senate-socializtas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/senate-socializtas\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate socializtas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Senate considers socialized medicine for the U.S. today, consider what the concentration of government funding for socialized medicine throughout Europe has done for the business of health care.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdna.com\/shows\/medica.html#page=page-1\">Medica 2009<\/a> in Dusseldorf.\u00a0 It&#8217;s simply enormous.\u00a0 Floor space for the 4-day event costs around $20,000 for a 10&#8242; x 10&#8242; square.\u00a0 That&#8217;s $2M for a 100&#8242; x 100&#8242; space.\u00a0 The opulence is palpable.\u00a0 Massive displays of every medical device, machine, and product stretch for acres and acres in multiple linked buildings.\u00a0 Thousands of beautiful women and sharp dressed men represent their products with panache, elan and requisite sex appeal.\u00a0 The Medica show began around the same time governments began pouring public money into health care in the 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s.\u00a0 If you want more of something, subsidize it, and the evidence seems beyond doubt that public health care dollars have had this effect.\u00a0 It is puzzling, however, that the business of health care seems to be doing so well while the actual provision of health care seems to be in a state of crisis and in need of further socialization, more subsidy, and more government control.\u00a0 Is there really a disconnect here?\u00a0 Or is the argument for socializing health care in America a myth propagated by a leftist congress intent on perpetrating an extreme device to transfer more wealth and power to government forces?\u00a0 If the U.S. House and Senate get their way, we&#8217;ll definitely get more health care business.\u00a0 Ironically, we&#8217;ll also get health care rationing, scarcity of providers, and enormously increased taxes.\u00a0 Imagine how our economies would look without governments confiscating enormous wealth and directing it into favored industries, and instead, people directed the spending of their own wealth toward goods and services they actually wanted?\u00a0 Would we buy these fantastically expensive trade shows?\u00a0 I seriously doubt it. \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pb200230-copy.jpg\" title=\"pb200230-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pb200230-copy.jpg\" alt=\"pb200230-copy.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Senate considers socialized medicine for the U.S. today, consider what the concentration of government funding for socialized medicine throughout Europe has done for the business of health care.\u00a0 See Medica 2009 in Dusseldorf.\u00a0 It&#8217;s simply enormous.\u00a0 Floor space for the 4-day event costs around $20,000 for a 10&#8242; x 10&#8242; square.\u00a0 That&#8217;s $2M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6,43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-care","7":"category-health-insurance","8":"category-nationalization","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}