Posted on 01/05/2007 2:11:43 PM PST by sdnet
John Edwards, never a warm and cozy sight to doctors and other medical professionals and a presidential candidate for 2008, is pushing for a taxpayer-funded Universal Healthcare plan, further nudging the United States closer and closer to pure socialism.
When asked if these kinds of taxpayer funded “investments” are a priority over balancing the clearly lopsided federal budget, he responded “If I were choosing now between which is more important, I think the investments are more important,” during an ABC television interview recently. Investments in socialism are clearly more important to Edwards. The priority of spending money supersedes saving money with every Democrat or Republican running for president in 2008.
Although balancing the budget is apparently important to the southern politician, he admitted that a federal government run Universal Healthcare plan may prevent the newly elected Democratic Congress from fixing the “fiscal ditch” that we find ourselves in.
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LOL!
Shouldn't he be chasing it though, and not driving it?
Thanks for writing it! :-)
He leaves the Rolls at home so to be as close to carbon neutral as possible.
LOL. He's just a walking(or in this case, driving) joke, isn't he. Just not a very funny one....
UK Hospital Fined for “Excessive Efficiency”
Ipswich Hospital was fined nearly £2.5m worth of funding because it treated too many patients, too quickly. Nurses and doctors at Ipswich Hospital had done so well in meeting their waiting lists targets that some patients were seen with a week rather than the minimum 122 days required by National Health Service rules.
Anne Bullock, spokeswoman for NHS, explained, "Minimum waiting times must be enforced if we are to ensure that everyone is equally inconvenienced. We cannot allow the superior efficiency of any hospital or staff to undermine our national commitment to equality. Everyone must take their turn at suffering or even dying, for that matter. It is fundamentally wrong for anyone to escape this social responsibility.”
There is also some speculation that a financial crisis in the NHS may be a factor, Hospitals have been told not to operate on patients until they have been on a waiting list for at least 20 weeks in an attempt to hold down costs. “From a fiscal perspective, making patients wait is cost-effective,” said Bullock. “Operations cost the NHS money. Delays do not.”
The hospital says it is reviewing its procedures to ensure that there are no repeats of this “unfortunate sequence of events.” “We cannot explain how the staff was permitted to work so efficiently,” said Nigel Cringely, Ipswich Hospital’s Administrator. “We are introducing administrative oversight procedures aimed at preventing a repetition in the future.”
Unfazed by the delays in treatment under socialized medicine, former North Carolina senator, John Edwards announced that universal, government-funded medical care will be a key plank of his platform in his bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president. “We cannot afford to let the failures of government funded healthcare in other countries deter us from implementing our own version here,” Edwards said. “I’m confident we can succeed where others have failed.”
A key element of the Edwards plan would be money set aside to fund tort lawyers who will sue doctors and hospitals if care falls below acceptable levels. “Under my plan doctors and hospitals won’t get away with excuses like lack of funds or time to provide top-tier care,” Edwards explained. “Any patient dissatisfied with the quality or timeliness of his treatment will receive government funds sufficient to hire top-notch trial attorneys to press his case for punitive damages. Doctors and hospitals will know that they face financial ruin if they fail to deliver the best possible care.”
Edwards boasted that PITLA (the Personal Injury Trial Lawyers’ Association) has already pledged to raise $10 million to support his candidacy. “The people who really care about America are behind me and this plan,” Edwards said. “With PITLA’s backing I don’t see how we can fail.”
In related news, UK hospitals’ efforts to stem the inroads of killer infections has been set back by Muslims refusal to wash their hands when visiting sick relatives. Dispensers containing anti-bacterial gel have been placed outside wards at hospitals in a bid to combat superbugs. Many Muslims are refusing to use the hand cleansers on religious grounds. “The Prophet (may peace be upon him) did not direct us to wash,” said Abi Muksukr, one of the non-washers. “Illness is a curse from Allah. Prayer is the cure. So, why should we be forced to defile ourselves with these evil smelling chemicals just to please the superstitions of the unbelievers?”
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
There will never be enough taxpayers to pay for all the medical care people would accept "free" from the government. Instead of socialized medicine, the less government involvement, the better.
For example, people 65 + should have the freedom to opt out of Medicare (without paying a penalty premium or tax), if they want to take responsibility for their own health care. Not everyone 65+ needs or wants Medicare.
Medicaid should be shut down, leaving it to the States to decide how much they want to spend on health care for the poor (including illegal immigrants). The closer these decisions are to the taxpayers, the more accountability there will be.
Yes...and it is scary.
Somehow we can't let the MSM to dictate our elections and our foreign policy by only showing the news they WANT Americans to see.
But don't worry, universal health care will put an end to all that.
Well said. I am completely against this notion of free medical for all.
Ping
Not really, they'll just raise taxes to cover it.
I'm with you. I'll have to learn how to grow my own herbs and make my own homeopathic remedies from them.
I'm amazed at all of the 30 somethings I know who are on anti-depressants.
A friend told me that she had seen an article about a link between anti-depressants and fibromyalgia. I can't vouch for that.
But I learned a couple weeks ago that several of the 30 somethings I know who have fibro (and are on permanent disability) are now taking pain meds which include opiates. The medical system is now a permanent fixture of their lives, at great expense to them and to all of us.
There must be a better way to respond to illnesses.
I shudder to think what that group of people will be going through, medically, financially and emotionally, when they are my age... mid 50's. :-(
Do you think that is really a disease??
I mean, my goodness, for them to get permanent disability, it is odd that this isn't a "well known" disease.
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