Mark Small

Dr Chuck didnt say health care means people can realize “life, liberty, and happiness,” as stated in The Declaration of Independence. Instead we need to make sure that people can be healthy for the “workforce.” 11/ 23

Dr Chuck does not mention a concomitant duty of employers - who, in a free market economy profit from that “healthy workforce” - to foot the bill, as overhead, to keep that workforce healthy. I doubt he would embrace such a utopian concept. 12/23

Dr Chuck rears the ugly head of “socialism” as a major foe. From the Kokomo Tribune: “I want to make sure we make healthcare work for patients, and socialized medicine does not work.” 13/23

From the IBJ: Dr Chuck “wants to fix the health care system and believes a socialist approach will worsen things for patients.” I noted in other blogs that “socialism” is not a term easily defined, ... 14/23

but American Heritage Med Dictionary “socialized medicine”: “a term used in the United States to describe and discuss systems of universal health care: medical and hospital care for all by means of government regulation of health care and subsidies derived from taxation.” 15/23

As I have said, if “socialized” health care is bad, then the USA’s health care system should be at the top. It is not. In a March, 2019, paper, for quality of health care, we were ranked 37th. 16/23

On the other hand, if socialized medicine is so bad, there should be few, if any, countries, ranked ahead of us, in which socialized medicine is a large component of, or comprises the entire system. 17/23

Of the 36 countries ahead of us in those rankings, only two are considered either to not have socialized medicine or a large component of its system socialized. Norway, ranked 11th, has a deductible of equivalent of $200. Morocco has mixed mandatory and private insurance. 18/23