America cannot afford communism.
Clearly Elmendorf hasn’t been caught in the sack with anyone, nor taken any tainted dough. They just haven’t been able to turn him, have they?
That means there’s only one, er, *solution* left.
I would avoid traveling alone if I were you, Mr. Elmendorf. Godspeed!
common sense.. liberals hate it
Notice how this is a blog post and not an actual news story. That’s because ABC Snooze would rather you not be told this.
I just hope it’s not too late to ‘prevent’ Obama from ruining America.
this article made me laugh...
This article is quite true.
The cost of providing routine screening for a large number of people exceeds the cost of treating those who don’t come to the doctor until they are sick.
The reason for screening is for health, not costs. A person whose problem is caught and treated early is better off than if they had waited until they had symptoms, then went to the doctor.
With socialized medicine (aka rationed care), it’s a win-win. Not only can you save money by not providing routine screening, you can make the process to get an appointment to have symptoms checked take so long that the disease is incurable or very difficult to treat by the time the person gets an appointment. Then, you save money because you only have to provide pain medication. There are so many ways to save money with socialized medicine, I don’t know why everyone isn’t for it! /s
I’m a Dermatologist, a specialty renowned for not having patients die of our diseases. Although other life threatening skin diseases exist, melanoma is clearly the main exception to our reputation. Even though we’ve raised its cure rate to 90% nationally it still kills more than any other skin disease. On the surface it seems an ideal case for preventative medicine. It is easily, quickly and cheaply detected at highly curable states without any technology more expensive than a Mark I eyeball. Dermatologist eyeballs work best although nobody can claim to be perfect, but many primary care eyeballs work reasonably well too. Yet the ‘official’ groups setting standards for preventative medicine continue to not recommend routine melanoma skin checks on the grounds that they aren’t cost effective. I guess it’s more cost effective to let folks die of the racist cancer (white incidence is 15-20 times greater than black incidence; although the cure rate in those rare, unsuspecting, black patients, due to later diagnosis, is 2/3 that of that in the nervous white patients) than to spend a few minutes looking them over.