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The Diminishing Returns of National Healthcare
Publius Forum ^ | 08/24/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 08/24/2009 9:31:17 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

Now even The New York Times is admitting that Obamacare means rationing and also means a cutting back of Medicare proving that fears of America’s elderly are “not entirely irrational.” The Times is admitting that the original guarantee that Medicare is forever and that the government won’t interfere between patient and doctor is fading fast.

Again, as we’ve said in the past, one of the chief ways we can judge if we should allow Obama and his Democrats succeed in forcing a government takeover of our healthcare is to look to see how government controlled healthcare works in other countries -- or doesn’t, as the case may be. We’ve had many examples already of how badly nationalized healthcare works in England and Canada, and here are two more.

Let’s start with our northern neighbors who, it seems, flood across the border seemingly on a monthly basis to get their healthcare here in the U.S. because they can’t get it in a timely manner in their own country...

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: britain; canada; healthcare; obaa
Great, and this is the mess Obambi wants for the US? Thanks a load, pal.
1 posted on 08/24/2009 9:31:17 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Pravada
2 posted on 08/24/2009 9:32:01 AM PDT by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Read the link. They increase spending for the elderly while they give 50M people free healthcare. Now how would that work out ?

What if we gave 50M people free gasoline while giving out some free gasoline to those that already have it?


3 posted on 08/24/2009 9:53:53 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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To: sickoflibs

Silent no more!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPfHOacDhGE


4 posted on 08/24/2009 10:57:15 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Thank you Mr. Robinson (toodamtall1@yahoo.com))
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