Hillary's Folly

If you think that Hillary Clinton with her ideas of socialized medicine can take care of you just think of how the government fared in taking care of the Americans who were victims of Hurricane Katrina. Many people believe that Government will take care of them and that when I get older the Government will have to take care of me.

Government agencies, official and have one issue at mind and it is not you. The biggest rule of most civil servant and government employees is not to do anything that brings attention to their boss and to themselves. Everything else is secondary. They are just putting in time so to speak. Any help they give you is just accidental and just an aside. Indeed they will often tell greet you on the phone (after playing an extended period of telephone tag to evade) is who are you? I speak to thousands of people a day. One should note that there are only 480 minutes in the eight hour day that most civil servants put in. Eliminate the 350 minutes for setup, coffee breaks, and meetings of committees. The standard joke is that Why don't Civil Servants look out of the window in the morning? The answer is that otherwise they would have nothing to do in the afternoon.

You might wonder why it is that a hierarchy of command exists and yet a committee structure abounds. Committees meeting might be said to meet for reasons of shared expertise and experiences in order to make informed decisions and policies and procedures to best meet customer needs. Yet the final results in most cases of performance and customer service leave more than a fair bit to be desired. Levels of customer's services to say the least just are not there. You have to understand the very basis of the curacies purpose self seeking growth. The larger the department the bigger the budget the more civil servants and staff it will have and the more money and salary will the directors gets. On top of that a committee is faceless, changes all the time and most importantly individual committee members can never be held liable for any decisions made. Talk about a poor system of feedback and lack of accountability.

The more staff the more individuals in the department will have to management and supervisory positions with higher salaries. It is like a cancer feeding on the public and its purse, though taxation. No matter what happens disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, poor service ET all - you can count that the graphs and charts of performance and customer service, cases opened and closed (successfully) and all will be always on a major upward trend. The circle of the growth of bureaucracy while serving no one but it will go on and on. It is downright evil.

As an example take the case of government Auto Insurance Agencies in Canada. Bill Oreilly on the Fox News program the factor was astounded to learn from Heraldo Riviera that in Canada a cancer patient after the initial diagnosis can routinely wait up to 17 weeks for the first appointment with a medical specialist. Apparently this is even a low estimate. Even though Michael Moore will tell you in his new movie Sicko how glorious medical care is up there in Canada and down there in Cuba . At least a Canadian with poor health can travel across the border to the U.S. and pay for an M.R.I. or another test and have it read by an American doctor. He or she can pay for privately or if exceptionally desperate sell their home or assets . Better to be alive with less wealth than to be dead with the house or cash.

In many places in Canada the government runs the Auto Insurance with government run auto insurance monopolies. Imagine that - in Canada in many provinces and states people can only buy auto insurance from a government agency. They have no choice. They can buy their groceries at piggly wiggly or Costco. But they can only purchase their auto insurance from a government agency. If someone opens up competition selling auto insurance to the public they will be shut down faster than you can say "Humpty Dumpty" and can even be sent to jail and fined. Imagine if the poor person who goes to Seattle for his M.R.I. got that prompt service for their medical care .

What Mister Moore does not notice is that it is exceedingly difficult for Canadians to even get a general practitioner. Apparently up to 30 % have just given up. If a new doctor puts out a shingle you basically have to run as fast as you can (after finding out the name of the doctor and his or her address on a government help line). You have no choice. Take or leave it.

If you do not relate to the doctor, then big deal, you have no where else to go. After diagnosis of a Cancer scare perhaps you are lucky where ever you are in Canada to see a cancer medical specialist after only 12 weeks. However it may well have taken you 2 months to find and get the G.P. And of top of that the poor doctor may be so rushed, due to the workload, that it takes several visits for him, and an overlap of time and symptoms for him to refer you to that specialist.

On top of that the G.P. gets a steady stream of graphs and charts from faceless government bureaucrats comparing him to the imaginary reference doctor his dreams and that he (the doctor) is referring to many patients to medical, ordering too many tests and that he had better smarten up.

If you think that government can take of your health care and look after you well think again.

Hillary Clinton and her policies of socialized government run medical care are sadly mistaken.