Posted on 07/07/2009 4:37:33 PM PDT by RobinMasters
0: The number of unrehearsed, unscripted questions asked of President Obama during his “Town Hall” on health care reform.
13: The number of teeth that British veteran Ian Boynton pulled out himself with pliers “because he couldn’t find an NHS (National Health Service) dentist… [he] could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain.”
14: The percentage of all patients in Britain who wait more than one (1) year to receive treatment after a referral by a general practitioner. Half of all National Health Care patients in Britain wait between 18 and 52 weeks for treatment.
37: The “health care ranking” assigned to the U.S. by the World Health Organization among the world’s countries. This oft-quoted number is used to justify an overhaul of the U.S. health care system and lists countries like Italy (2), Andorra (4), Malta (5), Singapore (6), Oman (8), Portugal (12), Greece (14), the United Kingdom (18), Ireland (19), Columbia (22), Cyprus (24), Saudi Arabia (26), the UAE (27), Morocco (29), Canada (30), Chile (33), the Dominican Republic (35) and Costa Rica (36) ahead of the U.S. Considering that no U.S. citizens travel to these countries when experiencing a life-threatening situation, it’s worth questioning the methods by which the WHO arrived at these rankings. Their criteria included subjective and political assessments such as “Fairness in financial contribution“. Suffice it to say that the WHO’s rankings are clearly fraudulent and are designed to influence U.S. policy.
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Your work is tremendous. Thank you.
The point is that all socialist health care systems attempt to provide scarce healthcare to everyone and end up rationing.
Eek, that picture gives me cold chills. Our daughter is expecting her first baby in a couple of months, and she has said that if the US gets Obamacare, she and her husband will move out of the country when they have other children before she will endure the horrors of a socialized medical system. She’s smart.
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