The blogosphere is going nuts over the proposed US healthcare reform.
I could comment on how You Don't Know What Socialism IS, Idiots on Fox News, or Why Isn't Everyone Outraged By This Lack Of Provision in a Developed Nation? (As opposed to just quite a lot of people.)
But no. For it would put up my blood pressure. So I will pray, and pray some more, and present for everyone's edification...Stephen Hawking and the Government Death Panels.
Stephen Hawking: An American newspaper claimed:
"People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless,"
From the Telegraph.co.uk
The fact that Stephen Hawking IS British and gets treated by the NHS on a regular basis...bah, whoever lets facts get in the way of a good story? They had to print a retraction and all, which makes me feel slightly better, but who reads those?
And...
The Government Death Panels: They exist, oh yes, they exist. But not in our Orwellian NHS, oh no. In the wonderful free-market economy of healthcare that is the US of A:
"You have no idea what it’s like to be called into a sterile conference room with a hospital administrator you’ve never met before and be told that your mother’s insurance policy will only pay for 30 days in ICU. You can't imagine what it's like to be advised that you need to “make some decisions,” like whether your mother should be released “HTD” which is hospital parlance for “home to die,” or if you want to pay out of pocket to keep her in the ICU another week. And when you ask how much that would cost you are given a number so impossibly large that you realize there really are no decisions to make. The decision has been made for you. "Living will" or no, it doesn't matter. The bank account and the insurance policy have trumped any legal document.
If this isn’t a “death panel” I don’t know what is."
From sobeale.blogspot.com
Lord have mercy.
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