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Government-run health care is full of empty promises. dailysign.al/31ety1g via @CalThomas @DailySignal

@CalThomas @DailySignal The most recent figures examined by the newspaper found 564,829 patients in the queue to see a specialist and another 68,807 patients waiting to have surgery.

@CalThomas @DailySignal Ireland’s population is less than 5 million. The population of the United States is just over 329 million. If tiny Ireland can’t make it work, what makes so many of our politicians think it will work in the U.S.?

@CalThomas @DailySignal And Ireland isn’t even a part of Britain’s National Health Service. They’ve got their own system, part public, the Health Service Executive, and part private option. It’s the public system wherein the problems lie.

@CalThomas @DailySignal Across the Irish Sea, the U.K. has its own horror stories about health care run by the government. Canadians who can afford it often come to the U.S. rather than wait for their government to approve and schedule surgery.

@CalThomas @DailySignal Adding to the dysfunction is the overregulated Irish system in which people don’t want to become doctors or serve in other health care capacities. Low pay is only one reason.

@CalThomas @DailySignal According to the Independent, there are “527 vacancies for hospital specialists,” as well as a “pay gap between newly recruited consultants and longer serving colleagues.”

@CalThomas @DailySignal The question endures: With governments doing so few things efficiently and at reasonable cost, why do so many turn to it first?
Government has become its own type of religious cult. No matter the evidence to the contrary, many people continue to place their faith in it.