It’s hard to open a newspaper, listed to the radio, or read a blog today without seeing another pronouncement of a new solution for universal health care from Capitol Hill to the state capitols. It’s also of huge interest to the neo-Socialist wing of the Democratic Party in their quest to make all Americans completely dependent on the government.
“It is a moral imperative that we [the federal government] provide health insurance for the 47 million uninsured Americans,” Hillary Clinton recently said on the Fox on Sunday program.
Barack Obama said that every American would have access to private or government-sponsored health benefits by the end of his first term if he were elected President.
When asked by a reporter if an individual decided they didn’t want the healthcare John Edwards is pushing on American he quickly responded, “You don’t get that choice.”
Many point to the “overwhelming success” of Canada and the UK - where wait times have increased tenfold and costs are skyrocketing. The well-read and the intelligent understand that the universal healthcare promoted by the Democrats is nothing more than economic quicksand. But it’s the Parasites & Leeches™ - those that believe they are entitled to services for which they do not pay and benefits of which they have not earned - that are the targets for the Democrats’ pleas. It is these Parasites & Leeches™ that will suddenly clog the hospitals with numerous maladies and sufferings while the rest of us work longer hours and open our wallets to fund their medical care.
To see how the UK’s Parasites & Leeches™ have “matured” the healthcare situation you don’t have to look very far. From The UK Telegraph:
Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.
Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone.
About one in 10 hospitals already deny some surgery to obese patients and smokers, with restrictions most common in hospitals battling debt.
Managers defend the policies because of the higher risk of complications on the operating table for unfit patients. But critics believe that patients are being denied care simply to save money.
OF COURSE it’s to save money, stupid. You’ve mandated that the nation’s government-funded healthcare system provide services to everyone. Now you’ve created an entire sub-culture of Parasites & Leeches™ that use more than they pay, and you can’t understand why the system is going broke? Are you that ignorant or just blind? You are in the beginnings of a downward spiral to implosion of your entire healthcare system.
- Rates of potentially fatal hospital superbugs are continuing to rise because of chronic failures by the NHS to deal with the problem, says a study by the National Audit Office (NAO). Everything from unclean instruments to shoddy care have been listed as blame.
- London is bearing the brunt of shortages in the NHS according to a new report from the King’s Fund. It concludes that patients are getting a ‘raw deal’ as staff shortages in the capital run at twice the national average. “We are relying too heavily on temporary staff to plug permanent vacancies. This is simply unacceptable, as it has an impact on NHS staff morale and a potential knock-on effect for London’s patients,” said Niall Dickson. Huh? Temporary staff are the ones providing the medical care since the permanent staff are all quitting? Oh, that’s comforting.
- Patients at the Northampton General Hospital can now reduce the time required for surgery by paying up to £6,000, as the hospital trust is unable to perform the operations due to scarcity of funds. Wait a minute - a patient paying for their own surgery? That sounds like the old-fashioned way to do things, doesn’t it?
- Women across the Cotswolds could be denied livesaving breast cancer drugs because the local NHS trust cannot afford them. Cotswold and Vale Primary Care Trust’s mounting debt has forced bosses to make drastic decisions in a bid to cut costs.
- A case in the UK involving a woman who has decided to take her son to India for surgery rather than endure a long wait with the National Health Service is drawing media attention. Elliot Knot, who suffered a serious back injury in January while ice skating, was told by NHS doctors that he would have to wait another nine months for his operation. After learning that surgery at a private hospital would be prohibitively expensive, his mother decided to fly him to India.
- Charles Collins, of Blackburn, was told in February that he needed urgent treatment on a blood clot on one of his eyes but arrived for his appointment three months later to be told he faced further delay because a machine had broken down. Has anyone in the US had to delay needed treatment in this way?
And this is what the Democrats want for the US?
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