The only thing really shocking about any of this is that anybody still watches MSM.
Of course Obama doesn’t want you to know how many people die as a result of the inadequacy of socialized medicine in Canada and the UK, not to mention the rationing of the care.
Here is just one article on this:
NHS accused of 17,000 unnecessary deaths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/18/health
More than 17,000 people receiving treatment in the UK have died unnecessarily because of the inadequacies of the NHS, it is claimed today.
The figure, in a paper published by the Taxpayers’ Alliance, is calculated using data given to the World Health Organisation. It compares the number of people who died prematurely, even though their illness was treatable, in five European countries.
The NHS performs worse on this measure of “mortality amenable to healthcare” than Spain, France, the Netherlands and Germany. If it had achieved the average of those four, 17,157 fewer deaths would have occurred in 2004, the most recent year for which the data is available, says the alliance.
Of course she died because she had cancer and exacerbated the problem with really bad decisions. Zero really doesn’t mind using anyone...
I receive this from Moveon.org
Dear MoveOn member,
Earlier this week, we received incredibly sad news. Melanie Shouse, a devoted MoveOn Council leader in St. Louis and tireless health care advocate, passed away after a battle with breast cancer.
Melanie was a true fighter. While she was involved in many issues with MoveOn, she always said health care was her heart—and even after treatments began, she came to every single health care rally, speaking out about the injustices she was suffering under our broken health care system.
Melanie’s story is a painful reminder of why we need to fight as hard as we can to get real health care reform passed, now.
Our friends at TrueMajority are gathering messages of condolence to deliver to Melanie’s family this weekend. The email they sent is below. To add your message, just click this link.
http://www.truemajority.org/MelanieShouse/moveon
Thanks for all that you do.
–Kat, Keauna, Ilya, Lenore, and the rest of the team
Dear Kat,
Melanie Shouse has died.
Melanie was a small business owner from Missouri battling stage four breast cancer, who also had to fight with insurance companies who didn’t want to pay for her treatment. She didn’t take that lying down—she spoke out, she protested, she became a leader in the movement for a more just health care system. Maybe you remember the video thank-you she sent to you and other TrueMajority members last October for being part of that movement.1
The cancer took Melanie’s life last week. To her family, we can only express our deepest regret and sympathy. If you’d like to send your sympathy as well, you can sign our guest book, and we’ll deliver your messages to the family this weekend.
http://www.truemajority.org/MelanieShouse/moveon
We’re sorry we didn’t get health care reform done sooner. Sorry that insurance coverage isn’t more affordable and accessible for millions of Americans who need it. Mostly, we’re sorry to lose our friend.
But Melanie would not have wanted us to stop fighting for reform. In fact, she asked that those attending her memorial service wear their activist t-shirts. So tomorrow, in lieu of flowers, let’s deliver our condolences, put on a campaign t-shirt and remember why we fight and who we are fighting for.
-Matt
Matt Holland
TrueMajority / USAction
1—http://www.moveon.org/r?r=86397&id=18852-17282031-3rRxQTx&t=1
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My daughter contracted breast cancer at the age of 22. She was caught in a space between insurance coverage. The medical treatments were expensive but owing and paying for her health care was more important to her and her son than waiting it out. 8 years later she is still paying it off. I am very proud of her. And she isn’t looking for someone else to pay for her.
I have no use for someone who didn’t take the warning signs seriously and instead spent her money elsewhere.
Sorry, no sympathy.
thanks for the background!
When you make bad decisions you have to take your lumps.
Too bad she didn’t avail herself of the services of Siteman’s Cancer Center’s Mammography Van
http://www.siteman.wustl.edu/internal.aspx?id=1407