[Reaganesque]

The Dem's Universal Healthcare schemes have been much in the news of late so, I thought this article was relevant. I think the most disturbing aspect of this article is the revelation (it was news to me, anyway) that the group responsible for deciding who will get life saving treatment and who won't is called the National Institute for Clinical Exelence. Yes, if government bureaucrats decide that your cancer treatments are not "cost effective" and turn you down, you can go to your grave knowing that you were condemned to death by NICE people. Positively Orwellian.

[KoRn]

"I thought this article was relevant"

You better believe it is! The socialists want the SAME thing here!!

[Mr. Jazzy]

Oh yeah, we really need THAT going on here! That's the place where Teddy Kennedy went for his brain surgery, right?

(sarc off)

[driftdiver]

What they really mean is these treatments will no longer be provided at all. The rationing will continue for cancer treatment, heart surgery and so on.

its sad to see a once great country dragged down into nothing by the barbarians.

[G.Mason]

Already happening here

[Archon of the East]

This comes as no surprise and has been happening regularly in all countries where social medicine has taken hold. It happens here to a lesser extent when the HMO's decide. Now I know people think there is a big difference but the truth is we are essentially a one payer system with insurance companies basing their payments on Medicare within a few percentages. While this is not full blown social medicine we are no doubt in the words of another ignorant entertainer half way there and living on a prayer.

[AmericaUnited]

British Sheeples pay $10/gal for gas and still can’t get medical treatment. Suckers!

[Huck]

Yea, I was on Obama’s website yesterday, checking out his policies, and under healthcare, it says “ The plan will cover all essential medical services”. The word ‘essential’ jumped out at me. Who decides? That’s what I don’t get about rank and file libs. I get how power monger elitists like leftism...they want to rule. But why do rank and file hippies want to sign their life over to the big bad gubmint?Makes no sense.

[randita]

What’s “glue ear”?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Don’t forget that the left wants old people and the disabled to die. Don’t plan on visiting the UK if you are over 75 and might get sick.

[BunnySlippers]

bookmark

[duckbutt]

Of course it rationed —how else do you control costs when it’s the government providing the services?

Surveys have shown that when folks think health care is “free” —they use more of it —and of course, this drives the price up in a government-run healthcare situation (think Medicare and Medicaid in the US as well as Canadian healthcare)

You can look online to see how long procedures will take in Canada. I had a hip replacement a year ago and would still be on their waiting list. Average wait time - 444 days.

If you have older folks in your family that think this will be the cure-all to healthcare, do some fact checking and present it to them.

It’s a nightmare —a total nightmare —

[socialismisinsidious]

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[ricks_place]

Congressional Democrats refuse to address the root cause of spiraling health care cost; threatened or actual court room litigation, loser plaintiff does not pay costs, and big money punishment awards against insurers, doctors, and hospitals. Congressional Democrats want to keep US health sick in order to implement their cure, Nationalized Health Care with Centralized Power and all the newly created patronage jobs. Nationalized Health Care would necessarily include the elimination of litigation; litigation probably replaced by a government appeal process.