Read this to get an idea of things to come to the US:
Victims Of Socialism
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=321237613527130
Deadly Rationing: The gatekeeper for Great Britain’s national health care system is denying cancer patients drugs that would extend their lives. Why? Because the medication is considered too expensive.
Banning beneficial drugs due to cost is nothing new in Britain. NICE, which has to be one of history’s most ironic acronyms, forbade the use of Tarceva, a lung cancer drug proven to extend patients’ lives, and Abatacept, even though it’s one of the only drugs that has been shown in clinical testing to improve severe rheumatoid arthritis.
Once again, we have to ask: Do we really want to use the British system as the model for a U.S. health care regime?
Promises of an effective, cost-effective health care system operated by the federal government are cruel fabrications. The British system shows that the state makes a mess of health care. So does the Canadian plan, which is plagued with unhealthy and often deadly waiting times for treatment.
Rationing is a slippery slope.
http://www.nahu.org/media/singlepayervideo.cfm
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm2155.cfm
The mid-term elections could bring a revolt by medicare voters.
Which would be bad news for RATS.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/06/slideshow-forum-on-health-reform-and-next-steps/
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Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Slideshow: Forum on Health Reform – and next steps
As always, White House Photographer Pete Souza captured the day in a way nobody else could:
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But as important a step as yesterday was, there is a long way to go. The process will now fan out across the country, with a new series of Regional White House Forums on Health Reform which will be hosted by Governors in their states and will include doctors, patients, policy experts and everybody in between. The regional forums, which will be in California, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Vermont over the coming weeks, will be open conversations across ideological and partly lines that build off of what was learned in the forum yesterday, with a video from President Obama to kick them off.
“Health care reform is a fiscal imperative,” President Obama said.
“Skyrocketing health care costs are draining our federal budget, undermining our long-term economic prosperity and devastating American families. The time for reform is now and these regional forums are some of the key first steps toward breaking the stalemate we have been stuck in for far too long. The forums will bring together diverse groups of people all over the country who have a stake in reforming our health care system and ask them to put forward their best ideas about how we bring down costs and expand coverage for American families.”
CNS NEWS.com: "FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, SOME IN CONGRESS SAY" by Penny Starr (SNIPPET: "Treatment has ranged from medication to surgery. "People have even gotten procedures such as bypass (surgery)," Rodriguez said.") (MARCH 4, 2009) (Read More...)
I’ve been trying to explain to a friend how Obama is going to attempt to have the government take over healthcare, but he keeps saying “He can’t control what people charge for their services, so it doesn’t matter. People will still have their own insurance and will still go to doctors.”
So I guess there’s nothing to worry about...
Saving for reference.