Sickoes – Socialized Medicine Provides Al Qua’ida an Ideal Cover

When Crockumentarian Michael Moore sang his hosannas to socialized medicine, I don’t think he quite expected the revelations of the past week in Great Britain. His movie, Sicko, openly suggests that socialized medicine would greatly improve American healthcare. It just doesn’t seem to address the issue of where these physicians would actually come from.

Osama Bin Ladin, the resourceful guy that he is, has offered up the services of his organization to the NHS. It seems that the chronic shortage of doctors willing to put up with the bureaucratic NHS has given the master terrorist an easy way to smuggle his assassins into Great Britain, according to The Independent.

Five of the eight people under arrest last night are said to be doctors. Another of those detained is the wife of one of the doctors, who is a medical assistant working for the NHS. The home of a sixth doctor is said to have been searched by police. Late last night an Australian television network reported that a suspect wanted in connection with the attacks had been arrested in Brisbane.

According to security sources, members of the group had moved to Britain between 15 months and two years ago. They had avoided mixing with known Muslim extremists in the country, or frequenting places such as mosques with fundamentalist preachers or Islamist bookshops. "They have given the appearance of being professional people, religious, but not overtly political", said one police source yesterday.

Thus, the new ‘doctors’ fit easily into British society. They came to fill a need that homegrown British education and intellectual life wasn’t filling. They were doing jobs that the good subjects of QE II wouldn’t do. This would be logical and easy to comprehend if these immigrants were milling textiles or picking lettuce.

But these people were medical doctors. They were members of what, in The United States, is a greatly respected profession. Students go into six figures of educational loan debt to practice medicine in the United States. Why would Great Britain have to import these professionals from lands far away?

Backers of socialized medicine would cite the money differential and backhand American doctors for being greedy and status conscious. They would claim that unlike Americans, doctors in socialized medical systems are there because they love to care for people. Look at how wonderful the healthcare was in Cuba; when Michael Moore had the cameras running.

People, who question every aspect of America’s economy, will go to every extreme to excuse the glaring deficiencies in the alternative, socialist model. Doctors won’t practice in Great Britain because they like being paid. This makes them normal, not cupiditous.

Terrell Owens gets paid several million dollars a year to catch a football. Someone who can open up your head, carefully remove a tumor, reconstruct your skull and then send you back home to recover and lead a normal life, should by all rights, be a very rich human being. It may not seem fair to the patient when the bill from the neurosurgeon shows up at the end of the month. However, it’s only justice for someone who spent sixteen years studying, going into debt and putting off the enjoyment of life that I, and most other people, took for granted in our youths, gets the big payday.

However, if you don’t like that system, you don’t need to worry about it. If we socialize our medical system, pay our doctors like civil servants, and they all quit on us, Al Qua’ida has plenty of doctors who are eager to take care of you. They’ll do it the same way they nearly took care of all those people in The TigerTiger nightclub.

The physician shortage in Canada was deliberately created by the government — as a way to ration health care. There was no shortage of qualified candidates for medical school — governments simply cut back the allowable enrollments.

The artificial shortage worked only too well. Wait lists for “elective” surgery got so long that it was becoming obvious, to even the staunchest defenders of the system, that it was broken. A lot of new medical school places were recently opened. Meanwhile, immigrants with foreign medical degrees are on a fast track for qualifying to practice in Canada.

I don’t know the situation in Britain — but I suspect that it’s similar. Both Britain and Canada have very low tuition rates, compared to the U.S.; so there’s no reason for a shortage of medical students — except for government interference.

Why do I get the idea that medical employed Islamist might just being doing ‘quiet jihad’ by needle? Little AIDS kaffer? How about a nice embolism?

I’m sure our top flight, billions of dollars security bureaucracy is right on this. </sarcasm>

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