A popular justification of government-run health care is that everyone should have access to the same care, regardless of their ability to pay. Yet, Japan has a form of socialized medicine, but it does not happen here. Consider a recent post by “Sachi X”, whose parents live in Japan relates her father’s experience with Japan’s government-run health care. Read the whole post for a disturbing narrative, which she summarizes:
National health care works great… so long as you’re rich enough to afford the premium level of government insurance and to buy multiple additional private policies; so long as you have influential relatives; and so long as you’re willing and able to brazenly bribe the doctors and bureaucrats who run the system.
(via FIRM)
