Emergency Review

The reality of government-controlled medical treatment.

This is an emergency book review.

Before you do anything else, make a note to read The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care by Sally C. Pipes. It might literally save your life, by checking the political stampede toward a government-controlled medical profession — usually presented politically as “universal health care.”

It is one of the painful signs of our times that millions of people are so easily swayed by rhetoric that they show virtually no interest at all in finding out the hard facts. Any number of other countries already have government-controlled medical professions. Yet few Americans show any interest in what actually happens to medical care in those countries.

--- Cancer survival rates are higher in the United States than in Europe --- annually tens of thousands of Canadians seek medical treatment outside of Canada, even though treatment is 'free' inside Canada --- waiting times for surgery are months longer in Canada, Britain, and Australia — all countries with government-controlled medical care — than in the United States ---

As with so many government programs, “the poor” are used as a political justification for imposing government-controlled medical care on everyone. But The Top Ten Myths of American Medical Care shows what a fraud that is and can literally be a life-saver. What it reveals is unlikely to be told by the mainstream media or by other enthusiasts for the magic phrase “universal health care.”

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