White House's Anti-Socialism Report Inadvertently Makes Case For Single-Payer Healthcare

If you're reading this web site, you pay attention to the news closely otherwise you never would have found us.  Thanks for that.  It also means you're smarter than most and are constantly infuriated by the stupidity of certain "leaders" of our country and the people who support them.  

Here's an example of this stupidity that makes us want to scream.

Earlier today [10/23/18[, the White House released a paper titled “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism.” Weirdly, it contains a chart that actually makes a pretty decent argument for single-payer health care.

The chart compares wait times for seniors in countries like Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the United States. It purports to show that seniors in single-payer countries wait much longer than those here in the United States.

It all looks pretty clear cut: Places like Canada and Norway have long wait times in their single-payer systems, whereas we here in the United States have very short wait times.

Except, here’s the key thing it leaves out: America’s seniors are essentially in a single-payer system. The vast majority of Americans over 65 get coverage through Medicare, a government-run health care plan.

....look at our own Medicare program, you see that it’s actually possible to build a single-payer system with short wait times. Most of it just depends on how much you pay doctors; higher pay is going to entice more professionals into the medical space.

....people in Medicare, our government-run program, are doing just fine on waits. But the people who have to shop for coverage in the private market? They’re waiting longer.

In summary, Trump's White House commissioned a report saying government-run programs are inherently bad.  But the geniuses charged with crafting this report aren't the brightest.  They made the case FOR government-run healthcare because of the great success of our own Medicare program.

....the Trump chart doesn’t say what the White House seems to think it says. It isn’t telling us that single-payer health care has long wait times. If anything, it says that it is possible to build a single-payer system with short wait times — and our Medicare program has already done it.

Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/23/18014026/trump-socialism-single-payer