Tue, Aug. 11th, 2009, 12:38 am
Irrefutable argument against socialized medicine...

From Investor's Business Daily where we learn how socialized health care in the UK leads to euthanasia..

IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure
"The U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility analysis based on the "quality adjusted life year."
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

Aren't we lucky Hawking wasn't born in the UK! It's impossible to argue against facts like that!

(you can tell he's American because he doesn't have a British accent)
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Tue, Aug. 11th, 2009 08:07 am (UTC)
[info]goulo

Is that editorial for real, or supposed to be some kind of ironic satire of Republican idiocy when it comes to paranoia about health care reform?
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Tue, Aug. 11th, 2009 11:44 am (UTC)
[info]amp23

whether it's real or not won't stop people from shouting about it at the next townhall.

they're gonna burn all the aspirin and leave us nothing but placebos!
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Tue, Aug. 11th, 2009 01:23 pm (UTC)
[info]nugget

Not satire. IBD is, ostensibly, a credible publication.
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Tue, Aug. 11th, 2009 01:30 pm (UTC)
[info]amp23

that's it. from now on my response to anyone saying anything about healthcare is to send them to the emergency room.
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Thu, Aug. 13th, 2009 06:05 pm (UTC)
[info]decibel45

According to Erica, some reporter cornered some Senator about this, asking how he knew this. His response was along the lines of "all the Senators are saying it".

Wee!
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