Just put Dr. Hawking in a Quantum Box and be done with it.
Posted on 08/12/2009 8:19:50 AM PDT by libh8er
So Barack Obama is facing the fight of his life (another one) as he attempts to reform the US healthcare system. The "special interests" – doctors, healthcare companies – don't like it. The "birthers" – crazy types who hope to prove he is not American – smell blood. The danger, says the Investor's Business Daily, is that he borrows too much from the UK. "The controlling of medical costs in countries such as Britain through rationing, and the health consequences thereof, are legendary. The stories of people dying on a waiting list or being denied altogether read like a horror script … People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless." We say his life is far from worthless, as they do at Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge, where Professor Hawking, who has motor neurone disease, was treated for chest problems in April. As indeed does he. "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS," he told us. "I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived." Something here is worthless. And it's not him.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Probably he and his family and loved ones.
a lot of high quality treatment with drugs discovered and funded by American research
I’d like to see 10 million illegal imigrants pour into England to get NHS care
Ezekiel Emmanuel says so.
Ummmmm
That was the most condusing bunch of stupidity I have ever tried to follow.
[No offense to the poster intended: what do bats and bananas have to do with Stephen hawking?]
But a young Hawking, one who had not yet become an international celebrity, would be told that his life would be without value, that it would not be cost-effective to treat his “chest problems”, and would be given the “pain pill” and sent home.
Brutal headline. Interesting article.
Thats “condusing”, doofus.
Hugh Muir . the writer, is not himself, ever likely to breach the class walls ~ hence, my belief that he is a "management toady".
LOL...Still confused...
I kill me....
Since when are diaries news?
Just put Dr. Hawking in a Quantum Box and be done with it.
Your confusion is quite confusing.
I believe Hawking is ‘Sir’ Stehpen—correct? That puts him higher on the food-chain.
“condusing” is good enough. It sounds like the confusion that follows a goodly blow to the head.
Birthers aren’t crazy, they just want the Constitution respected. It’s not a hard concept to grasp.
The ordinary guy in UK, with his 3 illegitimate children by different women, living with his STD ridden girlfriend in a 2 room flat, probably isn't going to be given a personal nurse, nor will they always give him full strength penicillin! (Bwahahahaha, as if Mr. Muir cares).
Just desserts...
But if you use Ezekiel Emmanuel’s scale of ‘worthiness’ to society, the government would go to the bank to keep this guy alive and communicating.
Show me another British citizen with the same diagnosis who has the supportive equipment and health care attention as Hawkings has recieved.
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