Posted on 05/16/2008 2:47:17 PM PDT by John Semmens
A recent incident in which a 61-year old woman was initially denied life-saving surgery, then granted it after a media hubbub, was characterized as a “prudent cost-containment procedure” by the National Health Service.
“As a general proposition, a 61-year old doesn’t have much social value,” NHS spokesman Winston Hardman explained. “Naturally, the first step in our cost-containment procedure is to deny service -- even if that means the individual will die as a result. If there is a public uproar sufficient to persuade us that the scrutiny being given to a particular case warrants a revised decision, well, we will make one.”
Hardman asserted that this seemingly callous and haphazard method was “socially adaptive.” “In cases where there is no significant public complaint, we save money,” Hardman said. “In the few cases where a public spectacle is created, we reverse course to save our budget allocation. It’s a logical way to preserve the aggregate well-being of the collective society.”
(Excerpt) Read more at azconservative.org ...
It's “free” social healthcare available for all.
Are you ready for "free" healthcare!?
Just to point out: these quotes come from an article labeled “Semi-News — A Satirical Look at Recent News.” The word “satirical” in there should provide a hint that these quotes might not be the best basis on which to launch a flame war against the NHS.
Liberalism/socialism = death. Could it be made any more clear or chilling?
Anyone over 60 who votes for libscum and their universal health care is a moron or has a death wish. After all, too libscum, they have no “social value.”
Wow. just wow. Sure this isn’t Scrappleface? Wow, it’s not...
OK, I sit corrected. It is satire. Hard to tell the difference anymore...
JOHN SEMMENS: Semi-News -- A Satirical Look at Recent News
The IT’S-CHEAPER-IF-YOU-DIE Insurance plan
The IT’S-CHEAPER-IF-YOU-DIE Insurance plan
Oh but if she was a muslim immigrant, they would be tripping over themselves to provide whatever she needed.
You could do us all a favor and put the word “Satire” in the title of your posts. Every thread you post has a number of responders who take your articles seriously. Who knows how far it goes, and how many people feel betrayed and disillusioned when they find later that they’ve been had.
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