Standard of Living – Madison, Wisconsin

YouTube video of Canadians telling Paul Krugman that Canada’s health care system sucks.

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Long wait times and short supply!

As Dr. Robert Berry said at the Palm Beach Atlantic University Forum on Ethics & Character in a speech he titled, “What is the right path for our healthcare crisis?“:

“The only thing universal about healthcare in these two countries [Canada and Britain] is that it is in short supply and requires waits that can only be described as inhumane or unethical.”

Universal health coverage (which fails miserably at attaining the goal of universal health care) in Britain, administered by a government-ran medical bureaucratic-monopoly called NHS, allowed a man to die yesterday because they didn’t have time for him.

Wisconsin’s Dane County government also has a government-ran bureaucratic-monopoly except in 911 emergency service and it allowed two individuals to die as the victims had to wait so long for help to arrive that they were brutally murdered as they waited.  You can read my previous post here about Wisconsin government workers allowing Brittany Zimmermann and Mark Gregory Johnson to be murdered.

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During my time in college studying economics and now out of college and listening to economists on TV, I am always amazed at the misinformation current economists have regarding the true effects of FDR’s “New Deal” policies.  If you have ever cared to get some insight into the economic effects that carried forth from the era of the Great Depression and the policies of the New Deal, then you will be in for a treat here.  Within this great discussion among economists and historians, you will get both the correct and the incorrect analysis.  This discussion was hosted in Canada so it also features the viewpoint of a Canadian historian.  His responses will probably surprise you.  But, pay special attention to Russ Roberts as he explains with great insight what the actual economic implications of the policies of Hoover and Roosevelt were.  Russ Roberts is a professor of economics at George Mason University and blogger at Cafe Hayek.

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