{"id":867,"date":"2007-09-10T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2007-09-10T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T23:41:00","slug":"david-brooks-european-system-wont-fix-u-s-health-care-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks: European system won’t fix U.S. health care woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Some liberals, believing that government should step in as employers withdraw,
support a European-style, single-payer health care system. That would be fine if
we were Europeans. But Americans, who are more individualistic and pluralistic,
will not likely embrace a system that forces them to defer to the central
government when it comes to making fundamental health care choices.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the elderly are practically rioting in the streets to get rid of Medicare, aren’t they? What a self-serving load of hogwash. It’s easy enough to just say you are ideologically against any kind of reform involving a single payer type solution. It’s another thing to blame it on the “American Character”, as if this is some unchanging monolith, or ever was.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We shouldn’t disrupt the lives of those who are happy with the insurance they
have.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Brooks apparently doesn’t realize what a vanishingly small number of people this is these days.In the end, Brooks advocates yet another half-baked idea that tinkers aroun the edges and fails to provide real healthcare security for all Americans.
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