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Here's a suggestion, if you have a certain condition or know someone with a serious condition, look it up on the NICE database and see for yourself what would happen to you under socialized medicine. You'll be "thrilled," I'm sure.
1 posted on 02/15/2009 5:51:09 AM PST by Reaganesque
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Here's a suggestion, if you have a certain condition or know someone with a serious condition, look it up on the NICE database and see for yourself what would happen to you under socialized medicine. You'll be "thrilled," I'm sure.

As and added suggestion, sent links to every 0bama supporter you know.
2 posted on 02/15/2009 5:56:45 AM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Reaganesque
And hey, if you're looking for a job, they're hiring!

Become a lay member of the NICE Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee

The NICE Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee develops national guidance on actions to promote health, prevent ill-health, and reduce inequalities in health between social groups. Committee members include a range of public health professionals and researchers, as well as lay members. The committee currently has four lay members and NICE is looking to recruit a fifth lay member.

Lay members of the committee play a key role in making sure that community views, experiences and interests inform the development of NICE guidance.

All members need to attend regular meetings, which are held in public, and read papers including summaries of research evidence.

Skills and experience

We would welcome an application from you if you have:

Public health professionals will be well represented on the Committee, so we are looking for someone without a public health professional background.

_________

Cool,huh? Make life or death decisions for others, NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!!

3 posted on 02/15/2009 5:57:45 AM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque
You have two competing imperatives here: low taxes or private insurance premiums, and high levels of access to services.

Except for individuals able to pay for unlimited case out of pocket, long term you can't avoid treatment decisions based on estimates of cost effectiveness under any type of health care delivery system.

The NICE assumptions are at least available to the public, and open to public debate.

6 posted on 02/15/2009 6:08:33 AM PST by M. Dodge Thomas
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To: Reaganesque
http://davidszondy.com/future/Dystopias/nice.htm

N.I.C.E.
National Institute for Coordinated Experiments
C. S. Lewis's novel That Hideous Strength:
A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups (1945)

Where other tyrannies were oppressive, murderous, or sadistic, the NICE is different in two ways. First, it doesn't set out to just control men, but to destroy their very souls. And second, Lewis’ depiction of the NICE is not of some villainous establishment that is at least impressive in its organization and efficiency, but rather of what a truly evil enterprise is like in real life: petty, vicious, and filled with power-hungry creatures who hate each other almost as much as they hate those they seek to enslave.

The NICE presents itself to the world, and thinks itself to be, a body of scientists dedicated to reorganizing mankind along strictly scientific lines. The members imagine themselves as vanguards of of a new, rational age. In fact, they are nothing but a collection of pseudo-scientists lost in a fog of cant and jargon, who produce nothing more useful than elaborate machines that look terribly impressive, but simply and pointlessly update reports from various committees on a huge board.

Unknown to the rank and file, the plan of the people who run the NICE is to take over the English university town of Edgestow, then England, and then the world by total control of the press, economy, and government to create a police state where criminals are not punished, but consigned to endless “remedial treatment”, vivisection is conducted for no reason other than to dull the moral senses by dabbling in obscenities, and people are reduced to mere material for “experiments.” Then the NICE can get on to the fun bit of eliminating all the “useless” and “obsolete” peoples and make the world more efficient by the utter conquest of nature. Eventually, they plan to do away with all organic life and leave Earth an airless moon ruled over by disembodied heads kept alive by machinery–men without chests, indeed.

At least, that's what the human rulers of the NICE plan, but they are really the pawns of masters who are literally (and I do mean literally) satanic.

And what their satanic masters’ master wants is far worse.

9 posted on 02/15/2009 6:27:44 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Reaganesque

Bttt


10 posted on 02/15/2009 6:35:43 AM PST by feedback doctor (The first female president will be a Conservative Republican)
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BFL


20 posted on 02/15/2009 7:24:50 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Reaganesque
My friend works for the insurance industry and says that government policed health care will be like the worst experience you've ever had with an HMO only on steroids. You will need “referrals” (that is if you are deemed worthy of treatment) to every specialist and the waiting will be outrageous. Every treatment will be questioned. You will lose control over any treatment choices and options and that decision will be made by an uninvolved bureaucratic stranger who looks at you as a liability. Think of it like going to the DMV for your medical treatment.
22 posted on 02/15/2009 7:33:18 AM PST by 444Flyer (Don't beLIEve Obama..................Repent Nimrod!...............)
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To: Reaganesque
I wonder how many members of Parliament or senior government officials have gone overseas for treatment or sought care in a private hospitals in the UK? A Canadian MP with breast cancer recently sought her treatment in California. Read article here
23 posted on 02/15/2009 7:50:27 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: Reaganesque

Comparative Effectiveness is what they call it here and I say “Call it here” because it was in the stimulus.


24 posted on 02/15/2009 7:51:16 AM PST by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristopherson)
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To: Reaganesque
when government runs healthcare, and is given a finite set of funds(tax revenue) to do it, with a growing demand on said funds, does it triage the funds, go first come first served or just give a little to everybody who needs it except not enough to do any real good, crank up the printing press and print more money, or, just say no room at the inn???
29 posted on 02/15/2009 9:48:50 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: Reaganesque
This is Anecdotal...

But the folks in Health Food Stores these Days?

Ain't Maggot Infested FM Rock and Roll types...

In fact, the staff in clean cur and rather attractive. What throttled me was when one of the staff told a patron that Global Warming was a Crock!

My guess is intuitively us Conservatives saw this going the wrong way for some time and are taking steps NOT to go to the doctor....

31 posted on 02/15/2009 11:50:57 AM PST by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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bttt


34 posted on 02/15/2009 3:35:00 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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