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Government medicine, or government bread

Posted on March 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Government medicine, or government bread

Amazes me how the legacy media can get away with, repeatedly, calling Obamacare “health care reform,” or “health care overhaul,” when it is really about a government takeover. Not as pleasant sounding, I suppose. Like “free” bread:

“If you relied upon the government for your bread, you would accept what you were given, and you would be given what politicians think you were willing to accept. They would conceal the massive cost of its inefficient production by telling you it was free. Because this is a lie, you would soon find yourself staring at an empty shelf, remembering the days when you could choose between six different brands of honey wheat bread, while politicians explained why your nostalgia reflects a greedy and selfish desire to return to an impossible age.”

Via Doctor Zero.

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“…eventually all medicine will be rationed by politics”

Posted on November 3, 2009 | Comments Off on “…eventually all medicine will be rationed by politics”

That is, says the Wall Street Journal, the inevitable outcome of "the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced" the 1,990-page "runaway train" the Democrats are just proud as punch of producing. Barry calls it a "critical milestone." With any luck, it will be one that costs them the White House for a generation.

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What the Dems risk changing

Posted on August 2, 2009 | Comments Off on What the Dems risk changing

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.
2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.
3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.
4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.
5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.
6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.
7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.
8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.
9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.
10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.

Via The Hoover Institution at Stanford, thanks to House of Eratosthenes

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ObamaCare

Posted on June 28, 2009 | Comments Off on ObamaCare

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Like Barry says, sometimes we’ll just have to forgo surgery and  take painkillers, instead. What a humanitarian. Does he ask ACORN to give up its eight billion in "stimulus"? Oh, but that’s different.

Via DebbieSchlussel.

MORE:  Even the Gerbilists say his recent "infomercial" with so cooperative aBC was a flop. Except on one point: he admitted he wouldn’t make his own family stick to the public plan. What a man.

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Take two aspirin and, uh, call, uh, who?

Posted on April 30, 2009 | Comments Off on Take two aspirin and, uh, call, uh, who?

Nevermind the inevitable higher taxes and rationing that national health care will bring. First, try to find enough doctors, particularly general practitioners. There aren’t enough of them now. Can you imagine the government quickly increasing the supply, such that you would really want to be treated by one?

UPDATE: Let the rationing begin. Barry’s chosen just the guy to do it. Course it won’t affect Barry and his cronies. Just you and me. Health care rationing, like paying taxes, is for the little people. The elite buy $540 shoes while lecturing the rest of us on how to live, eh Michelle? Great portrait, by the way.

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Socialism’s crown jewel

Posted on February 26, 2009 | Comments Off on Socialism’s crown jewel

Why, socialized medicine, of course. And like all good fascists everywhere, Barry and his cronies haven’t asked if we want it. Oh, no. There shall be no debate at all this time. That was the Clinton’s mistake. Its beginnings were hidden deep in the diversionary Porkulus bill. Too late now, suckers. Not that it works, because it doesn’t. But it makes the Progressives feel so good, you see.

A liberal friend who travels to London regularly claims it works just fine there. But she never gets sick. And not everyone there thinks it works at all–especially not if you’re trying to get a dental appointment. But, hey, we wouldn’t want all those illegals the Dems love so much to have to be demeaned by going to the emergency room. Soon it will be the same for them and us: get in line, get in line. And someone like Henry Waxman will be in charge of it and he’ll say uh, why no, you can’t have that new treatment. Too expensive, not efficient, etc.

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