Free Health Care is Not Always Good Health Care

This is a tragedy caused, in part, by turning control of something important over to a government bureaucracy. Canadian woman dies in emergency room after seven-hour wait; husband says she was 'neglected' | Fox News

A Canadian woman died after waiting seven hours in the emergency room, with her family blaming complications and shortcomings in the country's health care system for the death.

And you might say, "This is just one incident." But it is it?

Here is a video from PragerU. It contains a reference to the incident in the above story, but it is mostly by a French Canadian who details what the Canadian health care system is really like.

But back to the first article at the top.

Holthoff’s husband, Gunter, took her to the hospital as her condition grew more severe. She waited for seven hours for anyone to attend to her, but she ended up dying. Gunter told reporters on Monday that he still didn't know his wife’s cause of death.

After waiting until she was screaming in pain, they were taking her for an x-ray. (She didn't have a broken bone, but more complicated equipment is apparently not available to Canadian hospitals.

A doctor told Gunter that his wife had suffered from internal bleeding but could not determine the origin.

So she bled to death. In 7 hours, that is not surprising. That she had to wait 7 hours...

Does the US health care industry need improving? No doubt. Does it need a government takeover? Not on your life.

As I routinely tell a friend of mine: Whatever problem you are worried about, be it health care or the environment, or state of the the supply chain, more government is not the answer to that problem.