Dan is also morbidly disgusted by what socialized medicine produces. He writes about The Sadistic Brutality of England’s Government-Run Healthcare.
I’m not easily grossed out or nauseated. Heck, I’m on email lists for a half-dozen softball teams and you can only imagine the strange/filthy/nasty things that guys send to each other.
But I read a story about the death panels in the United Kingdom that left me discombobulated. I can’t even begin to describe how I feel.
Here’s the intro of a disturbing report in the Daily Mail.
Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults. But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.
If you want more horror stories about government-run healthcare in the United Kingdom click here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Yes Dan, many of us recognize what ObamaCrapCare really is. Our only hope is that the states will not be able to create the exchanges.
There are many of us who see the writing on the wall: Medicare will eventually be absorbed into ObamaCrapCare. Of course, we can always hope that someone comes up with an app that can send all those important details to someone who will interpret them correctly, right?
Scanadu announced Thursday that it plans to start selling this first device—the Scout, which monitors heart rate, temperature, blood oxygenation, and other vital signs—by the end of 2013, as well as a disposable urine-analysis test that can swiftly detect pregnancy issues, urinary tract infections, and kidney problems, and a saliva analysis test that can detect upper respiratory problems like strep throat and the flu. The Scout will cost less than $150, De Brouwer says; he doesn’t put a price tag on the disposable tests but says they will be “very, very cheap.”
The Scout may appeal to the growing quantified-self community, which focuses on tracking everything from sleep to stress levels (see “The Measured Life”) and includes some well-known figures such as the mathematician and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram (who is also a member of Scanadu’s board).
I think that the gadget is great, but what about the person on the other end who might not be an M.D.? Let’s face it, if the government is not going with torte reform, lower reimbursements, more patients, soaring malpractice insurance, why bother?
December 2, 2012 at 12:56 pm
And yet I battle every single day with obots who still think Obamacare is the best thing since Emancipation.
OOOPS Raycist me!
December 2, 2012 at 3:46 pm
You and I will never be able to argue with the bread and circus that Barack Obama has forced down our throats. Enjoy each day to its fullest and pray that you never have to use ObamaCare.
December 2, 2012 at 2:57 pm
This is another example of the magical thinking that brings us endless deficit spending. Health care costs money. Obama tried to convince people that he could make it free. He told detractors that he could reign in expenses by eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse.” Medicare already figured out that fraud costs less than fighting it. Now the “revenue neutral” plan that cost just under $1 trillion is now just south of $3 trillion.
December 2, 2012 at 3:48 pm
15 it’s downright scary. I remember a few years back and how this bot told me not to worry because it would affect the kids and not me. That is such ass backward speak. Nothing in life is free 15. We know that, but others need a major reality check.
December 2, 2012 at 5:21 pm
It’s already happening. Companies who applied for waivers are facing the reality that the waivers stop soon. Other places are laying off people to get under the employee limit or cutting hours to get under the full-time limit. And then there are the hospitals trying to limit re-admits because the government is punishing them for chronically ill patients, otherwise known as the Michelle Obama plan at the Univ. of Chicago Hospital.
December 2, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Meechelle knows this game well. It’s what got her that nice $300,000+ paycheck. It is now Medicare law that will not allow re admissions beginning next year.
December 2, 2012 at 7:13 pm
if the government is not going with …., why bother?
Why, to kill off the elderly, disabled, chronically ill, tc., people who can’t serve the black fuhrer’s state.
December 2, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Oh, yeah. Heil obama.
Nazism resurgent = Soros’ dream.
December 2, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Mary, this man is a travesty compared to Martin Luther King. Although, he could be Adolph’s long lost bro.
December 2, 2012 at 11:01 pm
McN,
Fom where I sit, I see valjar administering the show, bu Soros running it. This is the most EVIL national conjoining of bad people since 1930′s Germany.