National health care is a b*tch, just like the hildebeast.
It's not "fair" -- in the sense that everybody gets the same poor service. You can bet that Gordon Brown and Tony Blair did not go to Maidstone for their treatment.
It's not "effective" -- for the very reason that the reporter identifies: each new patient is a cost, each death an administrative convenience.
Nonetheless, it is damnably expensive. Even though it is "free"...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) did a study a few years ago to determine whether Medicare should implement newer techniques for chronic disease management. The conclusion was that the new techniques would probably allow people to lead longer, healthier lives, but people would eventually die of something else, probably cancer, whose treatment is much more expensive than having people die of heart disease. The cost to Medicare would have been huge.
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Of course, they do.....Death is so much cheaper, too (and w/ no legal liability's...they still keep the $$$$/taxes) and you can still blame the mean 'ol republicans, for not having if sooner...and still not very good for the patient....the rationing.
Remember that to leftists, nationalized health care is an article of faith, no different than Holy Communion is to a Christian.
Leftists don’t care if a national health care system is 100% lethal for every patient who walks through the door. It isn’t important if it kills or makes sick instead of healing, or if it is filthier than a stable. It doesn’t matter if its doctors and nurses are fakes and butchers.
They will still insist not just that it is better, but that it MUST BE better. They will also say that ANY problems are because of sabotage and not enough money. Even if all the money in the world is not enough money. Like Tinkerbell, they think that medicine is not based in science, but in faith. And if all the children clap their hands, then socialized medicine will work.
As I said, it is an article of faith with them. They will argue forever in its behalf as if it was their religion, because it *is* their religion. Logic and reason mean nothing compared to their faith. Suffering and death mean nothing compared to their faith.
That is why health care should never be under their sway, for their faith is a foolish and murderous creed, always has been, and always will be.
I complained and the sister blasted me with both barrels. She told me I was only 21 yrs and would be soon out into the world. A world of dances, girls and freedom.
I never could put my finger on it then. Now I can. The old order of discipline and having rights with obligations was going. I notice Florence Nightingale is referred to. As bad as any system is, when order goes, it is on it's way to disaster.
Millions of persons in my own native country are on welfare. Strong as an ox. The potential for even four hours a week service in just cleaning and doing something useful is there. It would not fix it, but an untapped source of simple labour is available.
Yeah,I know "forced labour" just like Hitler etc.
Another province suggested a 10 dollar fee each time. Shot down by the do good Johnnies. Persons who are indigent in Canada are said to spend a third of disposable income on fast food, lottery tickets and creature comforts. Ergo.
Insist people pay a fee.
“Suppose Sainsbury’s cold meat counter was found to have helped kill
more than 300 people, would the company survive? Yet the NHS sails
on, dealing death.”
In the USA, if your product (POSSIBLY, and likely in the Topps case)
made some people sick, the company dies.
The company is ultimately responsible for the product and damages...
but there have been some mumbled proposals about the government health
inspectors being “faster” in reporting health-endangering results of
inspections to companies.
Beef Recall Forces Topps to Shut Down
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5igYUJVjgwiiOrvpL9-faEYHGJ4DAD8S3JN680
Beautiful article that cuts to the heart of the matter: socialized medicine can’t work because socialism doesn’t work.
Hey! This kind of sounds like the va...
They win and keep getting bonuses when the vets die & do not file claims for the service they had given to our country!