In the 50 years that Britain has somehow survived under Rationed Nationalized Healthcare, pet care has never been Nationalized or any other Western Civilization country with Nationalized Healthcare for that matter. As with most Orwellian Liberals they tend to place the life of animals with higher precedence than to us pesky humans and probably decided that their pet’s life and well-being should not be placed in the care of Rationed Nationalized Healthcare. Lucky for Fido the dog and Fluffy the cat, they can have fee-for-service medical procedures anytime they want by the request of their human owner.

I believe that the human spirit of high achievement/greed (depending on your worldview) in combination with a strong Judeo/Christian faith centers a man in a civilized manner of competition to acquire wealth and services. When a tyrannical parasitic government (Fascist or Marxist) rations the goods & services desired by society for social engineering and/or ‘fairness’ per the controlling government ideology, a portion of the society will still find the goods & service channels through unorthodox means to satisfy their consumption.

In any Marxist or Fascist government control, the 'Black Market' steps in to satisfy the human need. In the realm of healthcare, backroom medical facilities can operate under the protection of corrupt politicians or maybe the populace may have to subject them selves to animal medical standards in-lieu for not having to wait for the bureaucratic inefficient health care entity to decide who will receive necessary medical care and when.

Veterinarians have much of the same working knowledge of how the human body operates and the medical remedies. They also have similar tools to perform some of the similar medical procedures for preventive maintenance and medical corrections like removing cancerous skin or removing internal benign growths.

If America models their rationalized healthcare like Canada or England, human medical providers will be forbidden from taking monetary payments for any medical procedure or performing such a medical procedure which is not authorized by the State.

I see a questionable spot on my skin because I work outside in property maintenance. The government tells me to wait 9 months for permission to see a dermatologist for the examination and then who knows when the medical procedure is permitted and scheduled to remove the questionable patch of skin. Potentially by that point in time, the patch of skin could aggressively have turned into melanoma and the cancer is spreading through out my entire body. Being the pet owner I am, with one phone call I could call my pooch's veterinarian and request a physical for the pooch the next day. With a wink and an extra 50 dollars during the pooch's physical exam I could have the veterinarian look at the spot on my back and simply have the spot in question removed in a quick manner.

In extreme cases the Veterinarian could temporary extend the life of the human patient just long enough for the human patient to travel to countries like India to receive the proper medical care for fee-for-service. 

In Obama's current version of his Dealthcare, I predict two short-term scenarios for American patients seeking advanced healthcare procedures. American citizens will begin taking long-term vacations to countries who provide fee-for-service healthcare and booking cruise ships specializing in medical facilities leaving into the international ocean waters so that medical procedures can be performed without the tyranny of a Fascist medical authority here in America.

With enough American patients traveling outside of the American territory for proper medical care, I predict our government clamping down on foreign travel and forcing our friendly relationed countries to deny travel visas for just this reason. Improving the health of American citizens and extending the lifespan of individuals will also jeopardize the available retirement and Rationed Nationalized Healthcare resources that are re-distributed. The government says they have eliminated the ‘Death Panels’ from the current version of Obama's Deathcare but I am not confident that the ‘Death Panel’ will not be instituted at a later date. Most Liberal programs are always incremental in scope.

A current excellent example is the United States Postal Service (USPS). The USPS is bordering on life support and 10+ billion dollars in the deficit. Instead of changing the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) business quality to encourage continued and expanded customer business base, the USPS is contemplating cutting their days of service or rationing the service. The same will occur for Nationalized Healthcare.

The government mindset typically is based on pure zero sum economics. The scope of the economy does not grow but the growth of government control of the scope does. The reality of a limited amount of resources will force the government to implement a ‘Death Panel’ to mandate & promote the end of life at earlier ages just in the name of the good of the society because of the limited re-distributed medical resources. The increased demand of 'Black Market' medical procedures could make veterinarians very wealthy.

The entire American populace really needs to think hard if such a right to life responsibility should be rendered to the Federal government thinking that is the risk is worth to take as long as the medical bill is passed to another American citizen?

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