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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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Tags: britain, brittany zimmermann, canada, dane county, dane county 911 center, dane county government, dr. robert berry, Healthcare, mark gregory johnson, NHS, palm beach atlantic university forum, universal health coverage
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I recently commented that it appears that individuals in Dane County in Wisconsin have a more open system for looking over government records than do individuals in Maricopa County in Arizona. It turns out I had spoken prematurely. I did not realize the extent to which government workers, such as Kathleen Falk and Joe Norwick, in Dane County tried to cover up their own incompetency and failure and that amongst other government workers and in so doing consequently showed the corruption of Dane County government workers. By corruption I mean secrecy. The Isthmus’ recent article “Dane County 911 Center faces the future“, explains that in the Brittany Zimmermann case, where the government 911 center allowed this individual to be murdered after she called the center pleading for help, the government center “refused to acknowledge the call or mistakes until it was reported by Isthmus“. So much for trusting so-called public servants. However, I already exposed the myth of public servants here. Kathleen Falk still continues to hide under a cloak of secrecy even now. It appears that the blunders of this central planner are numerous. The Isthmus asked this taxpayer-funded worker why she had not conducted the required yearly performance evaluation of then government 911 center director, Joe Norwick. Apparently, Kathleen Falk lied or truly did not know but in any case said that Norwick had not been a director for a full year. The Isthmus discovered that in fact Joe Norwick had been employed for over a year. Why did Falk give the Isthmus false information? Not satisfied, the Isthmus demanded to see all the performance evaluations of center directors that were given by Kathleen Falk. Only upon noticing the relentless actions of the Isthmus, Falk’s spokesman, Josh Wescott, finally admitted that Kathleen Falk had in fact NOT conducted a single performance evaluation of a government 911 center director for over 5 years. That’s 60 months. That’s 1,825 days that had gone by. Kathleen Falk thought that despite the fact that government 911 center directors are required to have an evaluation at least once every 365 days, 1,825 days should go by without any evaluation. Kathleen Falk is the prime example of the failure of government central planners. The government 911 center has no competitors because government planners have not allowed them to come into existence. The result of government-imposed monopolies is always a relaxing of business standards. The result of government-imposed monopolies like the 911 center is a decrease in productivity. The result of government-imposed monopolies is always secrecy. The result of government-imposed monopolies is always incompetence. The result of the Dane County government monopoly on emergency dispatch services is that government workers allowed Brittany Zimmermann and Mark Gregory Johnson to be murdered. Government workers were not there in that moment of brutality and aggression imposed upon these individuals by someone else. An open market for emergency dispatch services would never have allowed this government monopoly to exist. So long as politicians attack private individuals and not allow them to create competitive emergency dispatch service centers, we will continue to get more of the same incompetence, corruption and secrecy by government workers like Kathleen Falk but at higher and higher costs to taxpayers. Why at higher and higher costs? Because when government planning fails, government workers say it was the fact that they didn’t have enough money to carry out their duties. The reality is that they had enough money but they didn’t have any competition which would have sharpened their talents and made them more productive and skilled at a decreasing cost to their customers. If you’re planning on moving to Madison, WI you may want to think twice about the fact that the government here has a monopoly on emergency dispatch services and the lack of help you would receive in an emergency may mean severe consequences for your safety and life.
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Tags: 911 emergency dispatch, 911 performance evaluation, brittany zimmermann, central planners, cloak of secrecy, dane county, dane county 911 center, dane county government, government-imposed monopoly, isthmus, joe norwick, josh wescott, kathleen falk, madison, maricopa county, mark gregory johnson, murder, safety, wi, wisconsin
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Another individual, a man named Mark Gregory Johnson, died after the government-ran 911 emergency center in Madison, Wisconsin mishandled numerous calls for help and allowed this individual to be murdered. This same government-ran 911 center mishandled a call for help from the cell phone of Brittany Zimmermann and allowed her to be murdered in April 2008, a mere seven-months earlier. Why does the Dane County government allow its citizens to be murdered when they pay for emergency dispatch services via taxes? I would like to let Murray Rothbard answer this question. The following excerpt can be found in an excellent book I recommend titled, Anarchy and the Law. This book contains a collection of anarcho-capitalist writings from many authors that talk about a free-market for law and justice. This specific excerpt was taken from a chapter in Murray Rothbard’s book, For a New Liberty.
[…]there is a common fallacy[…]that the government must supply “police protection” as if police protection were a single, absolute entity, a fixed quantity of something which the government supplies to all. But in actual fact there is no absolute commodity called “police protection” any more than there is an absolute single commodity called “food” or “shelter.” It is true that everyone pays taxes for a seemingly fixed quantity of protection, but this is a myth. In actual fact, there are almost infinite degrees of all sorts of protection. For any given person or business, the police can provide everything from a policeman on the beat who patrols once a night, to two policemen patrolling constantly on each block, to cruising patrol cars, to one or even several round-the-clock personal bodyguards. Furthermore, there are many other decisions the police must make, the complexity of which becomes evident as soon as we look beneath the veil of the myth of absolute “protection.” How shall the police allocate their funds which are, of course, always limited as are the funds of all other individuals, organizations, and agencies? How much shall the police invest in electronic equipment? fingerprinting equipment? detectives as against uniformed police? patrol cars as against foot police, etc.?
The point is that the government has no rational way to make these allocations. The government only knows that it has a limited budget. Its allocations of funds are then subject to the full play of politics, boondoggling, and bureaucratic inefficiency, with no indication at all as to whether the police department is serving the consumers in a way responsive to their desires or whether it is doing so efficiently. The situation would be different if police services were supplied on a free, competitive market. In that case, consumers would pay for whatever degree of protection they wish to purchase. The consumers who just want to see a policeman once in a while would pay less than those who want continuous patrolling, and far less than those who demand twenty-four-hour bodyguard service. On the free market, protection would be supplied in proportion and in whatever way that the consumers wish to pay for it. A drive for efficiency would be insured, as it always is on the market, by the compulsion to make profits and avoid losses, and thereby to keep costs low and to serve the highest demands of the consumers. Any police firm that suffers from gross inefficiency would soon go bankrupt and disappear.
I gathered two things from Rothbard’s writing:
1. Government-ran entities are always subjected to bureaucratic bungling because there is no signal from the citizens as to what level of service is needed. Citizens pay taxes to fund the 911 center, but they do not know how many of their individual tax dollars go to the emergency center. Therefore, citizens cannot determine if they personally are paying too much or not enough for the level of service they want. When I go to McDonalds, I know what they offer and at what price. It is transparent and honest. I may not be able to afford every item offered, but at least I know what I could get and at what cost to me. This allows me to accurately calculate the correct level of funds I need to accumulate to acquire the services/goods I want to receive.
2. The services offered by a private 911 emergency center would be optimal in number, efficient, and always accurate. If not, they would be out of business. No free-market 911 center would ever last past the first murder it allowed. The other private 911 centers around the city that were trustworthy and accurate would pick up their customers and life would go on and be better with the faulty emergency center no longer in business. Only in a region such as Dane County where the government-ran 911 center has a monopoly on 911 services do mishandled emergency calls result in more murder. There is no way for this inaccurate and inefficient center to go out of business. This is the hazard of government entities.
If Democrats really believe that monopolies are bad for consumers, why do they allow the government to have a monopoly on emergency dispatch services which continues to allow more brutality and death on its watch? I suspect that Democrat and Republican politicians in Dane County are more interested in holding on to their faulty belief that only government can provide dispatch and protection services. I suspect that Dane County politicians are not as interested in the protection of individuals as they are in maintaining these government institutions despite the fact that free-market dispatch and protection services would never allow such horrendous life-ending results. Politicians here choose to hold on to barbaric myths instead of using reason. Their god is government. They are anti-intellectuals. When will these monopolistic politicians allow personal democracy to take hold in Dane County and allow for the privatization of 911 services? When will individuals have their choice of dispatch and protection services? Apparently, some citizens may never live long enough to find out—due to the inherent failure of government.
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Tags: 911, anti-trust, brittany zimmermann, dane county, dane county government, government-ran emergency center, mark gregory johnson, monopoly, murders, murray rothbard, wisconsin state journal
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