The lunatics are taking over the hospital.
Tuesday, 1. September 2009, 22:12:15
In Paris two rival mayors, one conservative, the other socialist, have both instigated road plans to get the traffic out of their area quickly. They've both turned one road into a one way street. The problem is that it's the same road and they've made it one way in opposite directions. You'd think that would be the craziest thing on the news, but nooooooo....
In the US's ongoing healthcare debate things are getting more and more silly. 'Investors Business Daily' has posted an editorial making various strange claims, like senior citizens will have to undergo mandatory euthanasia counseling every five years. Fortunately for the aforementioned senior citizens this is probably bilge because this editorial also claims "People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless” They might have a point.
Well, if it weren't for the fact that Hawking is a citizen of the UK not the US, always was and still is. He lives here and works here and, oh yes, is on record as saying "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived." It's certainly safe to say that he would never have been able to pay for the treatment which allowed him to communicate with the rest of the world and enabled him to reveal that there was a genius living inside that husk of a body.
Critics of the president's healthcare plan have said it would "Introduce a 'socialist' system like Britain's". No it wouldn't. It would introduce a sytem like those of the rest of the civilized world's. Don't these people realise that it's not just us? The USA is the only 1st world nation not to have all-enveloping healthcare.
Whilst they're banging on about "Obamaland" they seem to miss one or two rather salient points. 1/ Britons have a longer life expectancy than USians, but pay half as much per head for it. 2/ Cubans have a longer life expectancy than Britons. A child born in Cuba today has a 5 times better chance of living to adulthood than a child born of parents of Cuban heritage living in the US, and upon surviving has a better chance of outliving his US counterpart. Cuba, for those who don't know, is a socialist country with a socialist healthcare system.
It seems like the current US system isn't a right to choose, it's a right to die.
In the US's ongoing healthcare debate things are getting more and more silly. 'Investors Business Daily' has posted an editorial making various strange claims, like senior citizens will have to undergo mandatory euthanasia counseling every five years. Fortunately for the aforementioned senior citizens this is probably bilge because this editorial also claims "People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless” They might have a point.
Well, if it weren't for the fact that Hawking is a citizen of the UK not the US, always was and still is. He lives here and works here and, oh yes, is on record as saying "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived." It's certainly safe to say that he would never have been able to pay for the treatment which allowed him to communicate with the rest of the world and enabled him to reveal that there was a genius living inside that husk of a body.
Critics of the president's healthcare plan have said it would "Introduce a 'socialist' system like Britain's". No it wouldn't. It would introduce a sytem like those of the rest of the civilized world's. Don't these people realise that it's not just us? The USA is the only 1st world nation not to have all-enveloping healthcare.
Whilst they're banging on about "Obamaland" they seem to miss one or two rather salient points. 1/ Britons have a longer life expectancy than USians, but pay half as much per head for it. 2/ Cubans have a longer life expectancy than Britons. A child born in Cuba today has a 5 times better chance of living to adulthood than a child born of parents of Cuban heritage living in the US, and upon surviving has a better chance of outliving his US counterpart. Cuba, for those who don't know, is a socialist country with a socialist healthcare system.
It seems like the current US system isn't a right to choose, it's a right to die.
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