RSSWhen Slimey Limeys Attack
Gene Lalor | August 15, 2009
The sleazey Brit tabloid The Independent is getting all persnickety over England’s being cast, along with Canada, as the dregs of government-run, (we call it “single-payer”) health care.
Formerly-Great Britain is in the throes of rapid decline and, as is typical of nations moving on down from their lofty past, is lashing out at its critics.
In a not too distant history, England was described as, “The Empire on which the sun never sets.” That expression of wishful thinking was initially written in 1821, when it was almost literally true. It’s not anymore.
Many thousands of suns have set for Britons and Great Britain in the nearly 200 years since and that “empire” is today a poor shadow of its former self.
Indeed, if not for American intervention in World War I, the Royal Family’s Germanic heritage would be more pronounced than it is and the Queen’s German would have long supplanted the Queen’s English as the mother tongue.
In retrospect, maybe we should have remained neutral and stayed out of the European mess in 1918. It may have obviated the necessity of World War II, when we again saved Britain’s sorry arse and also may have changed its Islamic-dominated future.
In addition to bad teeth, Brits also seem to suffer from bad memories and gross ignorance of debts owed to Americans.
When the mighty fall, they fall with a grand thump and the Brits are thumping all the way into the dustbin of history, most recently in defending its pride and joy, the NHS, or National Healthcare System, in place since 1949. Not coincidentally, the institution of the NHS came as Britain’s decline began in earnest.
Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan had the temerity to speak the truth concerning the NHS, and was immediately slapped down even by his own party.
Citing long waiting lists for medical attention and dismal survival rates, Hannan said he “wouldn’t wish it on anybody.” He added that, “to copy the system would lead the US towards bankruptcy” and that the UK was “just a couple of years behind Zimbabwe:” http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1c23b53a-883b-11de-82e4-00144feabdc0.html.
It’s not nice or healthy to speak unkindly of sacred cows.
The Independent valiantly leapt to the defense of the NHS with a thinly-veiled endorsement of Obamacare.
Featuring a no-holds-barred, abusive attack on America’s current health care system, supported by 80% of Americans, the tabloid contended that, “Although the Americans spend more on medicine than any nation on earth, there are an estimated 50 million with no health insurance at all:” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-truth-about-americarsquos-healthcare-1772580.html.
Now, aside from the fact that number has been hugely inflated by the Obamians and keeps growing and growing and growing, demonstrating their Machiavellian commitment to any lies justifying their ends, instead of presenting a full and complete picture of health care in America, The Independent branch of Obamians chose to focus on ”extraordinary scenes” at a free health care fair in the LA Forum.
Within 8 days, the article says, 10,000 patients were treated at would have been a cost of $2 million if treatment were not gratis.
Considering that extensive blood, urine, and other diagnostic tests could hardly have been completed in that time, $200 for an “office visit” was pretty hefty. I wonder, too, why those doctors and dentists, if they felt so strongly that our medical care sucks, couldn’t offer free services maybe once a year?
I have news for The Independent: Some Americans, as well as some Britons, Scandinavians, Bolivians, and Mongolians would line up for miles to get something, anything, for free.
I don’t dispute that many of those Americans were in dire need of medical, and dental, care. It’s a regrettable fact of life that our health care system is not perfect, although, by law, our hospitals are required to offer primary medical care to any and every one, rich or poor, legal or illegal resident.
The Independent offers a bunch of stats in support of its contention that the NHS is superior to American health care. What it fails to offer is any credible, or non-credible, statistics or opinions on why people flock to America when they require the best medical care.
Two pertinent cases in point in favor of our present system: Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Chris Dodd. Both elected to be treated within America’s “seriously flawed” medical system.
Brits, ever think you may be wrong in your approbation of the NHS? An incorrect response very well could be deadly.
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