[rlmorel]

Gee. Did anyone ELSE click on the link and go to the site that hosts the article?

Let's see...first off, Jerseyanexile, how about keeping the article title as it actually reads? I can see you haven't been around Free Republic all that long, but people frown on editing the title of articles. You should have it changed to reflect the actual one at the website: "How Doctors Die It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be".

And the other articles at the site: "Who Needs Doctors, Anyway?" and "Will The Healthcare War Ever End?" which contains this revealing question: "How did an almost universally acknowledged good like healthcare become a source of such titanic strife? "

I am sure it was a slip, and what the author REALLY meant to say was "acknowledged good like UNIVERSAL FREE PUBLIC healthcare".

And just look at the sponsors of this website, "Zocalo":

Well, that is a Murderer's Row" of liberalism if there ever was one. If you don't believe me, and hey, why take my word?) just Google a few like "New America Foundation" and why even bother to Google "Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles"...Gee, ya think there might be some federal grant dollars given to the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles which are turned right around and given to this "Zocalo" website?

Jerseyanexile, here is some advice: If you want to peddle Obamacare, Free Republic is not the place to do it.

[JerseyanExile]

I never said that I agreed with what the author wrote. My own mother is currently living proof of why numbers alone don’t tell the whole story. She contracted breast cancer back in the early ‘80s, and the chances they gave her weren’t all that good. Breast cancer treatments weren’t as far advanced then as they are today, and they were talking about her having a 50% chance of survival 10 years later. She went through chemo, and eventually had to have a mastectomy. It was miserable for her, but was it worth it? Well, here we are well over two decades later, and she’s perfectly fine, without any recurrence.

Numbers can be deceiving - true, the chance of CPR actually saving a life is pretty small, only something like 3% of people who have it performed on them survive. But you know what? I’d take those odds over nothing - heck, multiply that 3% by the number of people who have a cardiac arrest, and the amount of people saved each year by CPR is probably in thousands. A small price to pay for a few cracked or broken ribs.

I posted it because I thought it might be of interest here, not because I agreed with all of its sentiments.

[cycjec]

my sincerest thanks for the reporting on Zocalo.

[Albion Wilde]

Well, that is a Murderer's Row" of liberalism if there ever was one.... here is some advice: If you want to peddle Obamacare, Free Republic is not the place to do it.

Awesome smackdown!