Mark Small

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

Dr Chuck doesnt describe how he’d “fix” our health care system. Pres Obama was able to get ACA enacted & it was based on a prototype created by a GOP administration in Massachusetts. 19/23