Mark Small

Dietzen’s use of Mother Theresa’s image has an emetic effect, on me, similar to Dr Chuck’s glowing reference to Dr Martin Luther King on 01/01/20: Dr Chuck uses scare tactics to describe “a socialist approach” to health care. 2/15

Mother Theresa and Dr. King worked for social justice & to help the poor. What Dr. Chuck would have us do to the poor via health care, and his use of these two people in any way to further his campaign, make me want to vomit. 3/15

Dr Chuck was quoted by IBJ a couple of months back: “a socialist approach will worsen things for patients.” The concept of “socialism” is not easily defined, but The American Heritage Medical Dictionary defines “socialized medicine”: 4/15

as “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.” 5/15

If “socialized” health care is bad, then (1) USA’s health care system should B higher than 37th in the World and (2) of the 36 countries ahead of us, 34 - yes, all but 2 - should have systems based entirely or largely on socialized medicine. 6/15

Stats for people who are non-white and poor reveal an apparent secret to Dr. Chuck and other candidates for the GOP nomination for INCD5: it sucks to be non-white and poor in the USA. 7/15

For example, The Institute of Medicine compared USA to “16 of the most fairly comparable, high-income countries.” We come in last for infant mortality. Kids die because their parents lack access to health care. 8/15

Dr Chuck & I participate in a virtual town hall tonight sponsored by the Noblesville, Carmel and Westfield GOP clubs. Dr Chuck has not addressed statistics for health care and the success of “socialized medicine” - or, as the rest of the World calls it, “health care.” 9/15