British Health Care System : Wanting More - Getting Less (ObamaCare)

The British health care system is free and as this report clearly points out, when something is free people will want more of the same. The question that remains, can there be to much of something that's free?

The British health care system, and that of the Canadians, is a good sign post of what we can expect from ObamaCare. And if that's not enough to make clear health care decisions for our future, just think about the food stamps explosion and how the Social Security Disability program has gone off the charts in the last few years. It's free, right? Well no, it's not.

Millions more are coming to the same conclusion as the millions before them, why work or even look for work when you can stay home and live the good life at the expense of someone else. Free health care, food and living expenses are good ways to gain a foot hold on the opposition that believes in personal responsibility.

Progressive democrats believe this is a working solution to America's prosperity problem, only when the number of people receiving free stuff out number those providing the free stuff will cause problems that the democrats believe will finally cement their hold on power for generations to come.

That Progressive socialism will not work and never has, enslaving the population to government control has always ended badly, But putting that aside, will this fact enter the voting booth next November is still up for grabs.

Health Care Demand Will Continue to Rise in U.K.
Source: Jeremy Warner, "The NHS - Britain's national religion - doesn't have a prayer," Telegraph, July 11, 2014.

July 16, 2014

Britain's Office for Budget Responsibility released its yearly Fiscal Sustainability Report last week, predicting that health care spending in the U.K. will rise from 6.4 percent of GDP in 2018 to 8.5 percent in 2063. However, Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph explains that the report uses some very unrealistic assumptions to calculate those figures:

• The report assumes that the National Health Service will see the same productivity gains as the economy as a whole (2.2 percent), despite the fact that health care productivity gains tend to be less than half of that figure.
• Using a more realistic productivity rate, health care spending in the U.K. would reach 15 percent of GDP by 2063.
• The report also assumes that health care demand will remain at current levels, despite the fact that citizens' expectations about what services the NHS should provide are growing.

Warner pinpoints why costs in Britain will only continue to rise: "Demand is a bottomless pit. If provision is seen to be effectively free at the point of delivery, it can never be sated." He anticipates that Britons will be forced to pay for some of their health care services in coming years as demand increases, contending that lawmakers must find a private solution to these funding problems.