How government health insurance compares with private

We don’t even need to wait for Obamacare to see how ineffective government health care insurance is. Let’s look at the plans we already know, using National Center for Health Statistics as reported in JAMA Jan. 11, 2012, p. 141. The chart shows that road blocks and law suits are needed at every turn to stop this Obamacare madness. The British National Health service is the 3rd largest employer in the world—but they don’t have good health care.

Patient visits to physicians’ offices (2009) and hospital outpatient departments covered by insurance.

Private insurance 54% and 37%

Medicare 25% and 19%

Medicaid and CHIP (children) 12% and 26%

When has a government program in any area been able to exceed what the private sector can offer? Those now using private health insurance will need to be reduced to the government insurance level so that the liberals’ concept of “fair” can be imposed on everyone.

Two types of government health plans were not included in this chart: That for federal employees, which is better than any of us could afford (I think it’s cafeteria style with choices from about 7 or 8 private Cadillac plans, and BIA’s plan for American Indians, which is cradle to the grave health care with no cost to the patient, and the worst in the nation.