Walter Williams dispels health care myths
February 14th, 2007 by Brendan SteinhauserLeading conservative pundit and economist Walter Williams penned a great piece for today’s Washington Times about socialist health care programs like those being espoused by John Edwards.
Here is an excerpt.
“Some of our politicians hold up the Canadian and British nationalized health care systems as models for us. You can bet that if we ever have such a system, they would exempt themselves from what the rest of us would have to endure.
London’s Observer on March 3, 2002, carried a story saying an “unpublished report shows some patients are now having to wait more than eight months for treatment, during which time many of their cancers become incurable.” Another story said, “According to a World Health Organization report to be published later this year, around 10,000 British people die unnecessarily from cancer each year — 3 times as many as are killed on our roads.”
There’s a cure for our health care problems. That cure is not to demand more government but less government. I challenge anyone to identify a problem with health care in America that is not caused or aggravated by federal, state and local governments. And, I challenge anyone to show me people dying on the streets because they don’t have health insurance.”
