Why do Liberal Democrats continue to push for recreating failed European socialist programs? Via Eurosavant:

Nothing ironic about this latest news from Der Spiegel, though. That’s what those Europeans get for making health care something overwhelmingly (although usually still not exclusively) a public matter: when those authorities have their budgets squeezed and must cut back, the health system feels it. The article mainly keys off of a new survey among German hospital administrators and patients from Ernst & Young. German hospitals were already disappearing at a steady rate – 2381 total in 1992, down to 2083 in 2008 – but that trend is supposed to accelerate now that the local governments that pay for them are increasingly under financial pressure, and smaller hospitals are said to be particularly vulnerable even though they often turn out to be the most efficient. For those hospitals that do carry on, more than a third of them expect to have to cut personnel, and a fifth of them even plan to reduce their number of doctors.

Also, costs have risen 20% over the last decade. So much for the Germans being able to “bend the cost curve.”

Three reasons the Democrat ‘Health Care Reform’ is going to cost Americans a boatload of money. Just like Germany.