🚀 go-pugleaf

 I'm cross-posting to soc.culture.usa to let Americans know that
 there are other kinds of health care problems than they experience,
 and to invite their comments.  Hence a few background statements
 that would otherwise be unneccesary.
 
 The current chapter in a continuing series of various health care
 crises in British Columbia concerns doctors' outrage and 
 countermeasures in the face of the Provincial Government's actions
 to cap the health care budget and, to that end, to cap billings to
 the (only) health insurance agency by individual doctors.
 
 I wonder if the Governmment has also taken the precaution of
 imposing a cap on cancer cell division rates, LDL and blood pressure
 levels, and the incidence of hip fractures in elderly patients.
 No?  Well, I did rather doubt it - divine rights of rulers were
 out of fashion well before the French Revolution, and alteration
 of the laws of nature by decree was shown definitively not to work
 by King Canute (note to Americans; an early English king who
 ordered the tide not to come in).
 
 Well, then, the expectable result will be sick people left to
 suffer and/or die.  Not all of them, of course; the rich will
 always find care somewhere.  But we will experience a strange
 inversion of the American two-tier system of a large insured class
 who get what they need and a poorer uninsured class (the almost-poor
 who have to spend their lives worrying about whether tomorrow's
 illness will force them to choose between their house and their
 child, and the truly poor who get along on what charity provides
 in the hell of urban emergency rooms).  We will have a large
 insured class, including all the poor, who will get whatever the
 Government feels like paying for this year - which I somehow feel
 will always be less than the year before - and a substantial richer
 class who will get what they need because they can pay for it,
 likely at the horrifically high-priced American for-profit
 hospitals our best BC doctors will flee to.
 
 Coming up on three years into the emergence of the New World
 Order, and we have the irony of a BC Government seemingly intent
 on inventing anew Socialism With An Inhuman Face.