Posted on 06/04/2010 9:32:23 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Governor Sarah Palin once complained of those "death panels" in the President's healthcare policy, a scoff that infuriated Obamacare's supporters. But the fact is, by its very nature a nationalized healthcare system like the one that Obama wants acts as a "death panel" by denying care to save money. We don't have to guess at this eventuality, either. We have but to look to England's health services and we'll see the exact situation that Palin warned about.
A recent piece published in the Daily Mail reports that the British National Health Service is going to deny services to millions of Britain's citizens in order to save twenty billion pounds of the NHS budget. "Millions of patients face losing NHS care as bosses prepare to axe treatments to make £20billion of savings by 2014, a top doctor has warned," the paper warns.
British medical services will likely soon deny hernia treatments, joint replacement for overweight patients, ear procedures (even for children), nose and eye operations, varicose vein procedures, gallbladder and also carpal tunnel procedures. And this isn't something new. The Brits already deny all sorts of modern medicines because they feel the costs are too high...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
I had carpal tunnel surgery in 1995 after living with it for years. No one would test me because I didn’t have a job. When the muscle in my palm under my thumb collasped they tested me. It was about 5 years of never being able to sleep more than 2 hours at a time and constant nerve pain. I couldn’t imagine being forced to live with that any longer.
Obamacare justified by FLAWED DATA (NYT no less)
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