Single payer healthcare means substandard care and longer waits for it

IBD:

Everywhere we turn these days, we hear people calling for an end to ObamaCare and the imposition of a far-harsher solution to our medical problems: A single-payer system. That's one in which government is the sole payer and provider for health services and the legal private market for health care services essentially disappears.

Sound good to you? Before you embrace the idea, you might want to look at what's happening in Britain right now.

There, some hospitals are moving to ration care for those who are officially deemed obese — that is, anyone who has a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more. Oh, and while they're at it, they will also ration care for smokers, too.

Why? "To plug a funding black hole," as the British Telegraph newspaper put it. Translation: Britain's National Health Service faces such a serious financial crisis that it now has to deny care to some people, despite its claims of "universal care." And who better to deny care for than two of the most despised groups in today's modern society — those who are obese and smokers?

This new plan to bar overweight people and smokers from most surgery for up to a year is getting its first tryout in North Yorkshire. But, as Britain's Royal College of Surgeons has warned, rationing will soon become the norm across Britain as the health care system deals with soaring costs and failing care delivery for its patients. And the impact will be broad: The Telegraph, working off population data, estimates more than half of Britain's population will be considered obese in the coming decades.

The nightmare stories of bungled care and needlessly dying patients are already legion for the NHS, which is notorious for delivering substandard service to its patients.

And already, rationing of other care is being imposed across Britain — including strict limits on cataract surgery and hip and knee operations — to deal with the health care system's bottomless need for more money. For the last year, the NHS lost about $3.2 billion, nearly three times larger than the loss of a year earlier. It now faces a series of wildcat strikes by doctors, and even some hospital administrators are calling into question whether "free" universal health care can last.
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This is just at the delivery stage of healthcare.   The system also kills innovation since there is no profit in developing new drugs and treatments. Without competition, there is no incentive to provide better service and care.  Even with less care and services the cost to taxpayers will be enormous.

What Democrats like about the plan is that it fits their control freak agenda.  They also see it as a voting buying scheme.