British Bomb Plot and Michael Moore-style Health Care

Orange County Register ^ | July 8, '07 | Mark Steyn

[T.L.Sink]

Last week's incendiary Jeep Cherokee at Glasgow Airport has shown a rare light on the curious character of its government health system. Of the eight persons arrested as of Friday in the terrorist plot, seven are doctors with the National Health Service. Some 40 percent of Britain's practicing doctors were trained overseas - and that percentage will increase as older native doctors retire, and younger immigrant doctors take their place. The vast majority are from non-European countries. No amount of gold can persuade Britons to spend their working lives in the country's dirty, decrepit hospitals. They spend enough of their non-working lives there, waiting to be seen, waiting for beds, waiting for operations. According to the British Medical Journal, white males comprise 43.5 percent of the population but now account for less than a quarter of medical students. In other words, being a doctor is no longer an attractive middle class career proposition. That's quite a monument to decades of Michael Moore-style socialist health care. So today the NHS is hungry for medical personnel from almost anywhere on the planet, so hungry that the government set up special fast-track immigration programs. Mohammed Asha, Mohammed Haneef and their comrades didn't even require a work permit to come and practice as doctors in state hospitals. You don't have to be the smartest jihadist in the cave to see that as an opportunity. The fact that the National Health Service has to hire Wahabbist doctors with no background checks tells you everything about where the country's heading.

[T.L.Sink]

"In the West, we look on mass immigration as a testament to our generosity, to our multicultural bona fides. But it's not. A dependence on mass immigration is always a structural weakness and should be understood as such. In the socialized health systems of the Continent, aging, shrinking populations of native Europeans will spend their final years being cared for by yound Muslim doctors and nurses." - Mark Steyn

And a socialist health care system is what Hillary and Barack are planning for us.

[bajabaja]

Has anyone actually seen an open discussion about the fears British patients are likely having, especially if they are Jewish also, when being treated by Muslim NHS doctors?

I have not. But I have to think it is on their minds. The fear of being branded a racist still too strong?

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[WashingtonSource]

Brilliant, biting and incisive wit, and right on target. In other words, vintage Steyn.

[Brilliant]

Terrorism is small peanuts compared to the damage that Moore’s brand of health care would cause.

[God luvs America]

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[Brilliant]

“Europeans will spend their final years being cared for by young Muslim doctors...”

Well, at least this way, they won’t be a drain on the health care system... Just a drain on the funeral industry.

[neverdem]

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