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They think we are stupid
Aug. 16th, 2009 10:41 amThat, or they just don't care; because they lie. It's all one can think of when something like this nonesense, in which Investor's Business Daily maintains a lie
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.
They assume, I suppose, most people don't know that Stephen Hawking is British. That he was diagnosed with his condition at 21; while still a student, that his prognosis was absolutely predicatable, and by the best estimate he ought to be dead years ago.
That he's not is because the NHS treated him.
They go on about how the Obama Plan will do this:
The British have succeeded in putting a price tag on human life, as we are about to.
Can't happen here, you say? "One troubling provision of the House bill," writes Betsy McCaughey in the New York Post, "compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care (House bill, Pages 425-430)."
Right. Because we know there is no way the present system might decide to put dollars over lives. No one would ever say, "this costs too much, we can't do it." The motto is, "spare no expense."
Sure it is.
Let's use the "Wayback Machine" and look at Texas, where a hospital is allowed to cancel treatment, on ten days notice, if they decide it's not going to lead to improvement: Compare and Contrast.
The nut of that story is, the patient was terminal. She was going to die. The hospital decided the resources they had were being ill used (mostly because the patient hadn't ponied up an extra $75 a month for a premium addition to cover, venitilators).
Her family was only asking for some extra time for her mother to get there, in time to be there when the young woman (she was 27) died. The same people who are now crowing about the "death panels" which will be installed when (someday) the US gets a rational system of healthcare, instead of the opressive excuse we have now, were then braying that, "if people like her were willing to plan ahead, then this sort of thing wouldn't happen to them."
After all, we all have an extra $900 a year to make sure that, should we get ill, the hospital will help us to keep breathing.
Because "in Britian, they wouldn't be willing to spend the money to keep a Stephen Hawking alive" (never mind that Britian's NHS, did exactly that, before he was, "Stephen Hawking Really Good Physicist, and beloved of the world", and here in America, the insurance industry, and the hospitals, are all sweetness and light, sparing no expense to keep the spark of life alive, no matter what.
Sure they are, and next Sunday the Postman will bring me the money the daughter of the diplomat from Nigeria promised me for helping her out.
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.
They assume, I suppose, most people don't know that Stephen Hawking is British. That he was diagnosed with his condition at 21; while still a student, that his prognosis was absolutely predicatable, and by the best estimate he ought to be dead years ago.
That he's not is because the NHS treated him.
They go on about how the Obama Plan will do this:
The British have succeeded in putting a price tag on human life, as we are about to.
Can't happen here, you say? "One troubling provision of the House bill," writes Betsy McCaughey in the New York Post, "compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care (House bill, Pages 425-430)."
Right. Because we know there is no way the present system might decide to put dollars over lives. No one would ever say, "this costs too much, we can't do it." The motto is, "spare no expense."
Sure it is.
Let's use the "Wayback Machine" and look at Texas, where a hospital is allowed to cancel treatment, on ten days notice, if they decide it's not going to lead to improvement: Compare and Contrast.
The nut of that story is, the patient was terminal. She was going to die. The hospital decided the resources they had were being ill used (mostly because the patient hadn't ponied up an extra $75 a month for a premium addition to cover, venitilators).
Her family was only asking for some extra time for her mother to get there, in time to be there when the young woman (she was 27) died. The same people who are now crowing about the "death panels" which will be installed when (someday) the US gets a rational system of healthcare, instead of the opressive excuse we have now, were then braying that, "if people like her were willing to plan ahead, then this sort of thing wouldn't happen to them."
After all, we all have an extra $900 a year to make sure that, should we get ill, the hospital will help us to keep breathing.
Because "in Britian, they wouldn't be willing to spend the money to keep a Stephen Hawking alive" (never mind that Britian's NHS, did exactly that, before he was, "Stephen Hawking Really Good Physicist, and beloved of the world", and here in America, the insurance industry, and the hospitals, are all sweetness and light, sparing no expense to keep the spark of life alive, no matter what.
Sure they are, and next Sunday the Postman will bring me the money the daughter of the diplomat from Nigeria promised me for helping her out.
