[GeronL]

You know that “30%” cut in healthcare spending is going to about double or more government spending, right?

[lmr]

"After a harrowing stay at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Lord Benjamin Mancroft, a Conservative member of the House of Lords, spoke out in Parliament, declaring, "It is a miracle that I am still alive." He described "filthy" wards that were "never cleaned" and nurses who were "grubby… slipshod, lazy… drunken and promiscuous."

Some guys would like that, but probably not if they were dying. Wow! British hospitals suck asphalt!

[ari-freedom]

“The numbers make clear that most of these cuts will have to come at the expense of those who need health care the most – the elderly, the disabled and the gravely ill.”

so much for democrats standing up for the downtrodden. how about cutting the $$$ the govt gives to people who are able to work?

[Salamander]

‘the elderly, the disabled and the gravely ill.”

AKA “useless eaters”.

Sieg heil.

[nutmeg]

read later

[Tempest]

Ohhh scare piece. I love scare pieces! They’re very effective of the emotionally unstable.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

What is needed are annual cuts of 30% in the cost of GOVERNMENT.

We can start with the hangers-on and sycophants surrounding Barack and Michelle Obama who are living the opulent life of the ancient Pharoahs.

It is the cost of government that is bankrupting the United States.

[wastoute]

You know, yesterday I heard something that set me thinking about this entire "healthcare" issue from a very different perspective. The CDC announced that the life expectancy in the U.S. had gone UP again.

So if our healthcare system is so bad why is life expectancy going up, especially when burdened by the death of young from crime?

In a seemingly unrelated vein I was discussing the healthcare reform proposals with one of my partners when it occurred to me that "success breeds success". One reason our healthcare costs have gone up is because what we do works! The services we provide help people live longer lives with more freedom from suffering! Isn't that what the oath we take is all about? The reason more and more of the GDP has gone into healthcare over the last 20 years is because we are providing a service that is working. That is what free markets are supposed to do, isn't it?

We allow libtards to set the premise that "healthcare costs too much" and start the debate there. We have ceded our "game of chess" from the opening move! If folks decided they wanted Cadillacs and more and more of the GDP went into Cadillacs would that be a BAD thing? What happened to the old saying "instead of asking for a bigger piece of the pie let's make more pies?" If healthcare is consuming more and more of the GDP is that the fault of healthcare? Maybe what that really tells us is that THE REST OF THE ECONOMY IS FAILING? Could that be? What we need instead of healthcare reform is reform IN EVERYTHING ELSE. Lower taxes, less gummint, laws enforced (hat tip to Denninger), people invest without fear, jobs are created (real jobs not gummint service jobs) and the rest of the economy can begin to succeed LIKE HEALTHCARE HAS.

Just a few thoughts.

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[chatham]

No one knows how much money was given away by “the Fed”, nor does anyone know who got the money or where it will be used.
This Jerk wants to limit Healthcare, How Stupid.