One of the problems with nationalized health care is giving control of our medical decisions to bureaucrats. We prefer to make our own decisions about medical treatment in private consultation with our physicians.

The current shortage of swine flu vaccine has given a good example of how bureaucrats manage these things. What seems like common sense is often thrown aside for some “good” reason … “good” to a bureaucrat maybe.

According to The New York Times, seniors are being sent to the back of the line for flu vaccines, sometimes for the sake of vaccine for healthy middle-aged persons.

65? Back of the Line for the Swine Flu Vaccine, Pal – NYTimes.com

“We’re not used to this in the U.S.,” said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of Trust for America’s Health, a nonpartisan group that works to prevent epidemics, and who testified before Congress last week, essentially defending the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s choices. “When there’s a limited supply of a scarce resource, you have to give it to those who are most at risk and who will benefit the most.”

For those of us who value our independence, the ability to make our own medical decisions is of paramount importance. For that reason alone, seniors should prefer private means of paying for health care over public (government) programs.

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