Political Quotes

“the story opens with a simple observation, and this is the first sentence: ``The national health service is free, so it is also rationed.'' That is what we are seeing, and that is what people are living with every day in Britain. Under the guise of healthcare being free, they live in a world where healthcare is rationed. So how bad can that be? What would this mean with this one-size-fits- all Medicare for All, which the Democrats are proposing? The Economist writes that in Britain today ``[o]nly patients with the most complicated or urgent problems make it to a doctor.'' Actually, today you need a doctor's referral to see a specialist in England. But now, in some parts of the country, a British bureaucrat must preapprove your visit to the family doctor, who will then make the referral to the specialist. I can't imagine people in our country tolerating that. So, ironically, ``access to the rationers is itself now rationed.'' According to the article, ``Only half of [British] patients say they almost always get to see their preferred doctor.'' So only half get to see the doctor they choose. Remember that old line--``If you like your healthcare, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.'' In Britain, only half get to see their doctor--if they get to see them, if they get to go through the rationer, who is a bureaucrat.…”