Having bungled California’s response to the fires, Gov. Arnold isn’t exactly the poster boy for government competence and efficiency. He’s a bungler.
But just as the fires sent folks fleeing their homes, Arnold’s socialized medicine scheme would send even more people fleeing California to get decent health care.
New evidence comes from the United Kingdom, where the country’s Arnold-style Soviet medical system is sending people out of the country. The UK’s socialized scheme also was praised in Michael Moore’s propaganda film, “Sicko.” The Daily Mail reported:
Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.
And by the end of the decade 200,000 “health tourists” will fly as far as Malaysa and South Africa for major surgery to avoid long waiting lists and the rising threat of superbugs, according to a new report.
The first survey of Britons opting for treatment overseas shows that fears of hospital infections and frustration of often waiting months for operations are fuelling the increasing trend.
Patients needing major heart surgery, hip operations and cataracts are using the internet to book operations to be carried out thousands of miles away.
India is the most popular destination for surgery, followed by Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland and Spain. But dozens more countries are attracting health tourists.
Research by the Treatment Abroad website shows that Britons have travelled to 112 foreign hospitals, based in 48 countries, to find safe, affordable treatment.
It’s called socialism and it doesn’t work, as 74 years of the Soviet hellhole should have shown us.
If Arnold wants socialism so badly, he should move to the United Kingdom or Canada.
But Californians need to rally and Recall Arnold.
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