Quid Pro Quo

Amen, brother. You can count on that!

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

Kill Health Care

According this this report:

A few more months of wrangling and indecision, and health care legislation to remedy America's coverage and costs problem could be drawing its last gasps.

Every stand up and continue the wrangling and indecision. We have a country to save. No time to relax now!

The Gunslinger

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The Gunslinger

Get Yours NOW!

What About Prison Medicine?

My friend just sent me this:

The Perfect Solution to Senior Health Care

While discussing the upcoming Universal He alth Care Program with one of my "red neck" friends, the other day, I think we have found the solution.

I am sure you have heard the ideas that if you're a senior you need to suck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care. A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can't afford to take care of you anymore. You don't need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. Lets take care of the young people. After all, they will be ruling the world very soon.

So here is the solution. When you turn 70, you get a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 senators and 2 representatives. Of course, you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head and all the health care you need!!! New teeth, great!!! Need glasses, no problem. New hip, knee, kidney, lung, heart? Well bring it on. And who will be paying for all of this. The same government that just told you that you are too old for health care. And, since you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income tax.

. . . and Darwin will be helped by the seniors to clean out the misfit gene pool !

Now there's one thing no one has thought to ask. Under Øbamacare, what sort of medicine will convicts get? (I think they're getting sex-change operations now, aren't they?)

Since prison medicine is a darling of the Left, what exactly will it look like under Øbamacare? I have not heard a single word about it. My bet is, since it is already entirely funded by the victims of the crimes of the beneficiaries, it will be untouched, and indeed, continue to be upgraded as the quality and quantity of our care is diminished.

This could be a very nice "wedge issue" to help bring this monstrosity down around their little red ears.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State (EOTIS)
Vampire/Cannibal Hunter

Malkin Enters the Belly of the Beast

Michelle Malkin has taken a look at the Øbamacare bill. Not surprisingly mostly what it does is spend money unnecessarily, and create massive new government bodies.

That's the game plan: An Imperial State to run every facet of our lives, run by bureaucrats who gulp money, prey on citizens, and produce nothing—and fight tooth and nail to keep their Vampiric jobs and the government as big and inefficient and unwieldy and unresponsive, and robotically arbitrary as possible, while giving the demi-humans involved total cover for stupidity, greed, waste, corruption, malfeasance, ignorance, laziness and outright crime.

Welcome to the New American Oligarchy.

Here's the lowdown. A clip of which follows:

And we ain’t seen nothing yet. House Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee sifted through their opponents’ 1,018-page health care bill and released a dizzying flow chart detailing the Byzantine bureaucracy Obamacare would create. Washington would become the home of at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, and commissions to oversee the government-run health insurance regime.

Because 32 “czars” isn’t enough, the Democrat plan would add another overlord to the Obama administration. The new “Health Choices Commissioner” would helm the new “Health Choices Administration” (Section 141 of the bill) – separate from the already existing Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration), the Veterans Health Administration, and the Indian Health Service.

It's our necks or theirs.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State
Vampire Hunter

When the Imperial State Comes Knocking.

The Imperial State literally never has enough power. Never. Ever.

There is a knock at the front door. Peeking through the window, a mother sees a man and a woman, both in uniform. They are agents of health-care reform.

There is always one more tiny loophole of freedom they frantically need to close, one overlooked area of individual choice they need to snuff out.

People, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way.

Let's wake up and stop this now before we are forced to do it the hard way.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

My Letter to the Editor

Feel Free to Cut and Paste...

Dear Editor:

Just in case anybody is under the misapprehension that government healthcare will be good for him or for the country, allow me to point out just three facts that are generally accepted by many Democrats and the Congressional Budget Office:

1) Health care costs will skyrocket. Make no mistake, a government-run system will cost more than $1 trillion and Washington will have to keep raising taxes, rationing care, and limiting your choices in doctors and treatments to keep up.

2) Millions of jobs will be lost. A massive small business tax and crippling penalties will force small businesses to shed jobs or close their doors.

3) Millions of Americans will lose their current coverage. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates up to 20 million Americans would remain uninsured, even after spending more than $1 trillion.

Contact your representative, and tell him THIS is not the answer to our healthcare problems. And do it NOW. There’s not much time.

Of course...

If you want healthcare run like the Veteran’s Administration or the DMV;
If you want long delays, rationed care, limited options, fewer new drugs and innovative procedures;
If you want millions of small businesses hurt or ruined, and thus even more massive unemployment;
If you want government forced destruction of your current health insurance...

...don’t do anything at all.

Signed, etc. etc.

Headlines from Canada about their great Socialized Medicine

Here's what we have to look forward to. Remember, Canada is the MODEL for GREAT, FREE healthcare. Well, except that it's a total failure, and the Canadian Supreme Court has struck down the provision in the original law establishing Canadian Socialized Medicine which outlawed Private Health Care.

Canadian Socialized Medicine is SO bad...that they had to re-introduce Private Care...

Here are some of the reasons why. Copy and send them to your bonehead reps and tell them we don't want this in America!

* Surgery postponed indefinitely for 1,000 Kelowna patients

- Cathryn Atkinson, April 8, 2008 [Globe and Mail]

* Majority of Que. dentists quit health-care system

- March 27, 2008 [CTV.ca]

* Why Ontario keeps sending patients south

- Lisa Priest, February 22, 2008 [Globe and Mail]

* Will Socialized Health Care in the US Kill Canadians?

- Don Surber, March 3, 2008 [Acton Institute]

* Wait times for surgery, medical treatments at all-time high: report

- October 15, 2007 [CBC News (Canada)]

* The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care

- David Gratzer, Summer 2007 [City Journal]

* Cancer patients question why PET scan not covered

- May 28, 2007 [CBC News]

* BC Medical Association: Waiting Too Long for Hip and Knee Surgery Costs $10,000 Per Patient-Maximum Wait Times Should Be No Longer Than 6 Months

- June 28, 2006 [CCN Matthews]

* Ont. physician turns away patient for being 55+

- March 17, 2006 [CTV.ca]

* Canada inches toward private medicine

- Rebecca Cook Dube, August 8, 2005 [CS Monitor]

* Doctor defends private cancer clinic

- Gillian Livingston, July 15, 2005 [Canadian Press]

* Dogma trumps truth in health-care issues

- D’Arcy Jenish, July 7, 2005 [Ontario Business News]

* Why Canadians Purchase Private Health Insurance

- Walter Williams, June 20, 2005 [Capitalism Magazine]

* Doctor welcomes health ruling

- June 9, 2005 [CBC Montreal]

* Patients shouldn't wait more than 8 weeks for cardiac defibrillator: experts

- May 24, 2005 [Canadian Press]

* Grads fail to slow doctor shortage

- Jennifer O'Brien, May 21, 2005 [London Free Press]

* Free Canadian health care comes at cost

- April 10, 2005 [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]

* Canada's drug tab reaches $22 billion, report suggests

- Sheryl Ubelacker, CP, April 6, 2005 [London Free Press]

* Canadian health care is free and first-class -- if you can wait

- Beth Duff-Brown, March 19, 2005 [The Associated Press]

* Pediatricians, parents warn of shortage of community-based care for children

- Colin Perkel, March 4, 2005 [The Canadian Press]

* Access to specialists difficult: study

- February 16, 2005 [CBC Calgary]

* Doctor shortages, frustrations vary from region to region, survey shows

- February 15, 2005 [Canada.com]

* Montreal leads the country in offering private health care

- Aaron Derfel, February 12, 2005 [Montreal Gazette]

* Canada falling short on medical imaging

- February 9, 2005 [Macleans.ca]

* Creative incentives required to retain older doctors

- Dr. Charles Shaver, January 20, 2005 [Toronto Star]

* MRI gap defies cash fix

- Mark Kennedy, January 14, 2005 [National Post (Canada)]

* A boy's plight, a nation's problem

- Lisa Priest, January 13, 2005 [The Globe and Mail]

* Where's proof private clinics cost more?

- Tom Brodbeck, December 4, 2004 [The Winnipeg Sun]

* Surgery backlog tops 5,500 at kids' hospitals; One-year waits common

- Aaron Derfel, December 3, 2004 [The Gazette (Montreal)]

* Hospital wait lists to get worse, Carriere says

- Chris Traber, November 14, 2004 [Yorkregion.com]

* Frustrated patients can't handle ER waits

- Jennifer Stewart and Jeffrey Simpson, October 28, 2004 [The Halifax Herald Limited]

* Private medical clinic opens in Montreal

...it answers, "an ever-increasing demand from the public for greater accessibility and quality of health services." - October 13, 2004 [CTV.ca]

* Canadians have higher death risk than Americans after heart attack: study

- Sheryl Ubelacker, September 20, 2004 [Canada.com]

* Canadian medical tourists in India

- Jeremy Copeland, September 20, 2004 [CBC News]

* Doctor shortage cripples Canada's free health care

- Clifford Krauss, September 18, 2004 [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]

* Canada's Once-Proud Public Health System in Crisis

- David Ljunggren, September 14, 2004 [Reuters (Ottawa)]

* Hospitals to cut, again

- September 5, 2004 [Toronto Star]

* Canada's Medical Nightmare

- Robert J. Cihak, M.D., September 1, 2004 [Health Care News]

* Canada faces shortage of doctors

- August 19, 2004 [MSNBC]

* Canadians losing faith in health system: poll

- August 16, 2004 [CTV.ca]

* Ontario hospitals a health risk

- Michael Hurley, August 8, 2004 [Toronto Star]

* Need surgery? Here's how long you'll wait

"It's inhuman. The quality of my life is horrible and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it." - Jason Fekete, July 28, 2004 [Calgary Herald]

* Docs, nurses fed up

Canadian doctors and nurses are fed up with inter-governmental "bickering" that is dragging out wait times and causing more pain and suffering for patients. - July 28, 2004 [Winnipeg Sun]

* Free Health Care?

...in some cases, patients die on the waiting list because they become too sick to tolerate a procedure. - Walter E. Williams, July 24, 2004 [CATO]

* The truth about Canada's ailing health-care system

All the major candidates in Canada's recent national election acknowledged that the country's health-care system is failing Canadians. - Robert J. Cihak, July 13, 2004 [The Seattle Times]

* Health-care crisis looms, even with new money

Canada's health-care system is "five to 10 years" from the breaking point -- even with cash injections from government, says the new president of the B.C. Medical Association. - Doug Alexander, July 5, 2004 [Vancouver Sun]

* Emergency room delays a strong campaign factor

"Go into the emergency room — it is the most pitiful piece of work you ever seen in your life." - David Bruser, June 22, 2004 [Toronto Star]

* Canadian Health Care in Crisis

Analyst visits NC to describe how single-payer health care really works in practice. - Donna Martinez, June 17, 2004 [Carolina Journal]

* Quebec cancer patients sue over wait

Women waited months for radiation; lawsuit could cost system $50-million. - Ingrid Peritz, March 11, 2004 [The Globe and Mail]

* Health care: no waiting lists

'You get knee surgery within two days ... try and get that in human hospitals.' Canada's [private] pet health-insurance industry is projected to grow at roughly 50 per cent a year... - Robert Scalia, November 30, 2003 [Montreal Gazette]

* For some, surgery abroad a welcome answer

- Daniel Girard, November 29, 2003 [Toronto Star]

* Canadian Doctors Eyeing United States

- Clifford Krauss, October 17, 2003 [The New York Times]

* The Top Ten Things People Believe About Canadian Health Care, But Shouldn’t

- Brian Lee Crowley, October 9, 2003 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

* Canadians' health at risk, CMA says

- Valerie Lawton, September 26, 2003 [Toronto Star]

* Burnout is now doctors' ailment

Almost half of Canadian doctors say they're burned out, emotionally exhausted and blame medicine for putting a drain on their family life. - Karen Palmer, August 20, 2003 [Toronto Star]

* New MRI clinic in row over poaching

While she insists she's not making any money off the venture, she says it provides an income allowance for her and her husband, the other principal in the company. - Theresa Boyle and Robert Benzie, July 28, 2003 [Toronto Star]

* Price Controls and Overall Drug Spending

The Canadian system, however, tends to push up overall spending on prescription drugs, despite the low prices for some brand name ones. - John Melby, July 2, 2003 [Buckeye Institute]

* Gore Endorses Canada's Medical System

- William L. Anderson, November 29, 2002 [Mises]

* How Good is Canadian Health Care?

- August 2002 [Fraser Institute]

* Canadian Health-Care System Is No Model for Prescription Drug Reform

- May 1, 2001 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

* The Ghost of America's Health Care Future Lives in Canada Today

- James Frogue and Robert Moffit, December 25, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]

* Socialized Medicine: The Canadian Experience

Explores several lessons that can be drawn from the Canadian experience with socialized medicine:

o Socialized medicine, although of poor quality, is very expensive;

o Political compromise is the result;

o Socialized medicine is both a consequence and a great contributor to the idea that economic conditions should be equalized by coercion. - Pierre Lemieux [The Freeman]

* Canadian Health Care

...if Canadians knew as much as they think they do about the economic and moral workings of Medicare, they might not be as enthusiastic as they are about their cherished right to 'free' health care. - Andrei Kreptul, August 30, 2000 [Mises]

* When Patients Become Victims - The Crime of Government-Run Health Care

- Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D. and Kerri Houston, May 1, 2000 (PDF format)

* Socialized Medicine Leaves a Bad Taste in Patients' Mouths

- Lawrence W. Reed, February 23, 2000 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

* Canadians Dissatisfied With Socialized Medicine

- January 26, 2000 [NCPA]

* Memo to Al Gore: Canadian Medicine Isn't Cheap or Effective

- William McArthur, former chief coroner for British Columbia, January 28, 2000

* Loved to Death: America's Unresolved Health-Care Crisis

As Canada's national government slashes spending on medical care in order to reduce the deficit, local provinces are reducing medical staff. In Ontario, pregnant women are being sent to Detroit because no obstetricians are available. Specialists of all kinds are in short supply. Patients have to wait eight weeks for an MRI, ten weeks for referral to a specialist, and four months for heart bypass surgery. - Michael J. Hurd, November 1997 [Liberty Haven]

* Is Canadian Health care a Good Model for the U.S. to Follow?

- Michael Walker, August 1994 [Liberty Haven]

* Health of the State (commentary by a cancer survivor)

I tell you this not to alarm you, to elicit sympathy, or to bore you. I tell you because the episode has been, for me, a salutary lesson (just in case I needed one) in why the government should not be allowed anywhere near a syringe, a dressing, a scalpel, an oxygen mask, a tissue sample — anything to do with health.

* Michigan Shouldn't Copy Canada's Health System

- Lawrence W. Reed, July 29, 1991 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

[List from talk show host Mark Levin's website]

Headlines from UK about their great NHS...National Health Service

You might want to copy this, and send it to your Congressman and Senator - every single day until they vote on Socialized Medicine.

* Kidney cancer patients denied life-saving drugs by NHS rationing body NICE

- April 29, 2009 [Daily Mail (UK)]

* Girl, 3, has heart operation cancelled three times because of bed shortage

- David Rose, April 23, 2009 [Times Online]

* Number of children going to hospital to have teeth pulled soars by 66% since 1997

- Daniel Martin and Cher Thornhill, April 12, 2009 [Daily Mail (UK)]

* NHS 'failings' over elderly falls

- March 25, 2009 [BBC]

* Learning disabled 'failed by NHS'

- Nick Triggle, March 24, 2009 [BBC]

* Cancer survivor confronts the health secretary on 62-day wait

- Lyndsay Moss, March 21, 2009 [The Scotsman]

* Culture of targets prevents nurses from tending to patients

- Claire Rayner, President of the Patients Association, March 21, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

* Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog

- Sarah Boseley, March 21, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Our cancer shame: Survival rates still lag behind EU despite spending billions

- Jenny Hope, March 20, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Failing hospital 'caused deaths'

- March 17, 2009 [BBC]

* Health gap drive 'wasted money'

- Nick Triggle, March 14, 2009 [BBC]

* Longer GP opening hours branded wasteful 'PR exercise' by doctors

- Lyndsay Moss, March 13, 2009 [The Scotsman]

* "Political meddling" threatens general practice, warns GP leader

- March 13, 2009 [Management in Practice (UK)]

* Children at risk through lack of training for doctors and nurses, report warns

- Rebecca Smith, March 13, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

* Chocolate should be taxed to control obesity epidemic, doctors are told

- Simon Johnson, March 13, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

* 1,000 villagers wait for a dentist after just one NHS practice opens

- March 10, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Study that proves the folly of NHS Alzheimer's drug ban

- Jenny Hope, March 7, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* NHS charges to rise in England

- March 5, 2009 [BBC]

* Disabled children wait up to two years for wheelchairs

- March 4, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]

* NHS under fire over waiting times

- February 25, 2009 [The Scotsman]

* Government procrastination blamed for HIV-contaminated blood tragedy

- February 23, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Specialist nurses 'vastly overworked'

- February 20, 2009 [Harwich & Manningtree Standard]

* Hundreds of operations cancelled at Lothian hospitals

- Adam Morris, February 19, 2009 [The Scotsman]

* Stop asking for antibiotics to cure coughs and colds, Government tells patients

- Daniel Martin, February 17, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Stroke services are 'UK's worst'

- February 17, 2009 [BBC]

* Hospitals curb caesarean births

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, February 15, 2009 [The Times]

* Only five out of 51 hospital trusts pass hygiene test, say inspectors

- Sarah Boseley, November 24, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Top doctors slam NHS drug rationing

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, August 24, 2008 [The Times]

* Heart patients dying due to poor hospital care, says report

- Sarah Boseley, June 8, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* NHS dentistry loses almost a million patients after new dentists' contract

- David Rose, June 6, 2008 [The Times]

* Private healthcare managers could be sent to turn round failing NHS hospitals

- Philip Webster, Political Editor, and David Rose, June 4, 2008 [The Times]

* Cancer patients ‘betrayed’ by NHS

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]

* NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]

* Pensioner, 76, forced to pull out own teeth after 12 NHS dentists refuse to treat her

- Olinka Koster, March 26, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Dental patients face care lottery

- March 26, 2008 [Metro(UK)]

* Lung patients 'condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs'

- Jenny Hope, March 24, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Women in labour turned away by maternity units

- John Carvel, March 21, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Health inequality has got worse under Labour, says government report

- Andrew Sparrow, March 13, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Angry GPs reluctantly accept plan for weekend and evening surgeries

- John Carvel, March 7, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* NHS chiefs tell grandmother, 61, she's 'too old' for £5,000 life-saving heart surgery

- Chris Brooke, February 28, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Patient 'removed' from waiting list to meet target

- January 31, 2008 [The Scotsman]

* NHS patients told to treat themselves

- James Kirkup, January 4, 2008 [Telegraph UK]

* NHS is 'failing patients' despite record funding

- Rebecca Smith, October 4, 2007 [Telegraph UK]

* NHS rationing rife, say doctors

- September 24, 2007 [BBC]

* One in eight patients waiting over a year for treatment, admits minister

- John Carvel, June 8, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Audit Office asked to investigate record £500m NHS underspend

- John Carvel, May 30, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

* The drugs the NHS won't give you

- May 11, 2007 [Telegraph UK]

* UK lagging behind on cancer drug access, study finds

- May 10, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

* One in six trusts is still putting patients on mixed-sex wards

- Daniel Martin, May 10, 2007 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Specialist stroke care 'lottery'

- May 9, 2007 [BBC News]

* Smokers and the obese banned from UK hospitals

- May 2, 2007 [Healthcare News]

* Cancer patients told life-prolonging treatment is too expensive for NHS

- Lyndsay Moss, February 13, 2007 [The Scotsman]

* UK health service "harms 10 percent of patients"

- Kate Kelland, July 7, 2006 [Reuters]

* 5,000 elderly 'killed each year' by lack of care beds

- June 26, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

* Dental Socialism in Britain

- Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., May 9, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]

* Pay for nurses and surgeons doubles NHS overspend

- Beezy Marsh, Patrick Hennessy and Nina Goswami, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

* The money addicts: it's your cash they are gambling with

- Patience Wheatcroft, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

* NHS chiefs get luxury car deals

- Daniel Foggo and Steven Swinford, April 9, 2006 [The Times]

* Secret NHS plan to ration patient care

- Nigel Hawkes, April 7, 2006 [The Times]

* British Healthcare To Be Rationed

- April 7, 2006 [United Press International]

* British body rejects EPO drugs for cancer patients

- March 17, 2006 [Reuters]

* National Health Service - Grappling with Deficits

- March 9, 2006 [Economist.com]

* Hundreds wait to register as another dentist quits the NHS

- Martin Williams, September 23, 2005 [The Herald (Scotland)]

* Life-saving cancer drugs 'kept from NHS patients by red tape'

- Sam Lister, September 20, 2005 [The Times]

* NHS slides into the red despite record increases in health care spending

- September 20, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

* Alzheimer's sufferers hit by further delay in NHS approval for vital drugs

- Michael Day, September 18, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

* We all pay a price for our 'free' NHS

- John Smith, August 19, 2005 [The Scotsman]

* 2,000 British doctors out of work

- August 14, 2005 [The Washington Times]

* UK health 'unsustainable'

- August 14, 2005 [Finance24]

* NHS faces rising bill for negligence claims

- Ben Hall, August 8, 2005 [Financial Times]

* British boy to go to India for operation

- August 5, 2005 [United Press International]

* NHS failed to stop doctor raping scores of women

- Lois Rogers and Jonathon Carr-Brown, July 31, 2005 [The Times]

* Top crimewriter funds drugs for cancer victim refused by NHS

- Martyn Halle, July 8, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

* Report says NHS is mired in huge debts

- David Simms, June 25, 2005 [ABC Money (UK)]

* U.K. set to restrict smoking

- June 21, 2005 [The Associated Press]

* NHS ‘fund bias’ against men may cost 2,500 lives a year

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 19, 2005 [The Times]

* Doubts on funding NHS 'monuments'

- Nicholas Timmins, June 10, 2005 [Financial Times]

* 17 million reasons why we must improve hospital meals

- June 7, 2005 [Cambridge Evening News]

* Figures show more patients waiting for operations

- June 3, 2005 [Guardian UK]

* Scarcity of NHS dental treatment is revealed

- Celia Hall, May 19, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* Why NHS Opposes 'Treatment by Demand' for the Dying

- Stephen Howard and Jan Colley, PA, May 18, 2005 [Scotsman]

* 800 queue for NHS dentists

- May 5, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* Hundreds more heroin addicts to be given a fix on the NHS

- Nic Fleming, April 25, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* British health service facing nurse exodus

- April 25, 2005 [United Press International]

* About 400 patients a year in Scotland succumb to MRSA

- April 25, 2005 [Scotsman]

* NHS debts soar to over £1bn

- Karyn Miller, April 24, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* British taxpayers foot $26.5 million bill for abortion tourists

- April 18, 2005 [Catholic World News]

* U.K. Liberal Democrats Would Raise Taxes to Pay for Health Care

- Reed Landberg, April 14, 2005 [Bloomberg]

* Number of NHS Bureaucrats 'Rising Faster Than Health Staff'

- Joe Churcher, March 22, 2005 [Scotsman]

* '£500m hole' in hospital budgets

- Celia Hall, March 21, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* 1,000 Scots desert NHS every week

- Murdo Macleod, March 5, 2005 [Scotsman]

* British NHS facing financial crisis

- March 3, 2005 [Washington Times]

* NHS drugs regulator to withdraw approval of Alzheimer's treatment

- Nicholas Timmins, March 2, 2005 [FT.com - Financial Times]

* NHS waiting list rises

- February 11, 2005 [Guardian UK]

* Tumour patients hit by NHS shortages

- Jo Revill, February 6, 2005 [Guardian UK]

* NHS financial crises set to outlast winter

- Mike Waites, February 4, 2005 [Yorkshire Post]

* NHS 24 'priority' callers wait four hours for advice

- Caroline Wilson, January 14, 2005 [Evening Times (UK)]

* 'No strategy' on NHS waiting time

- January 14, 2005 [BBC]

* Output figures show NHS decline

- John Carvel, October 19, 2004 [Guardian UK]

* Heart patients die on waiting lists

- Peter Sharples, October 18, 2004 [Manchester Online]

* £25bn overspend feared for NHS computer network

- Karen Attwood, October 12, 2004 [telegraph.co.uk]

* Gaps in care cost £7bn, says charity

- John Carvel, October 4, 2004 [Guardian UK]

* NHS excluding poor people, UK

- September 15, 2004 [Medical News Today]

* Smokers 'should not get NHS care'

- September 6, 2004 [BBC News]

* Waiting list row blights Brighton

- John Carvel, September 4, 2004 [Guardian UK]

* Patients are denied the last rites under data protection law

- Elizabeth Day, July 25, 2004 [telegraph.co.uk]

* Shortage of dentists to double by 2011

- John Carvel, July 24, 2004 [Guardian UK]

* Britain's stiff upper lip gives way to a snarl

- Sarah Lyall, July 18, 2004 [The New York Times]

* Hospital Overcrowding A Cause of Superbug Infections

- John von Radowitz, July 1, 2004 [Scotsman.com]

* Hospital Crisis: Fallen Angels

- Lindsay Mcgarvie, May 23, 2004 [Glasgow Sunday Mail]

* Study finds British hospitals are still austere, cold, smelly and poorly maintained

- May 6, 2004 [News-Medical.net]

* Hospital bathrooms and showers: a continuing saga of inadequacy

- Andy Monro, MRCP & Graham P Mulley, DM, FRCP, May 2004 [Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine]

* Majority back public smoking ban

- March 24, 2004 [BBC]

* Discrimination Rampant In British Health Care

- Peter Moore, November 17, 2003 [365gay.com]

* PERIPATETICS—To the Medical Socialists of All Parties

- Sheldon Richman, September 2003 [FEE.org]

* Creeping Privatization?

Shortages of skilled workers, low morale, long queues for services, crumbling facilities and corrupt practises. - Roland Watson, August 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

* The World's Worst HMO

- Stephen D. Moore, November 24, 1999 [Random Thoughts]

* Socialized Medicine in Great Britain: Lessons for the Oregon Health Plan

- Professor John Spiers, March 18, 1999 [Cascade Policy Institute]

* The Sickbed Which is Socialized British Medicine

- December 23, 1997 [NCPA]

* The British Way of Withholding Care

- Harry Schwarz, March 1989 [FEE.org]

[List from talk show host Mark Levine's website]

Depends on Your Definition of "Force", Doesn't it?

Heritage Foundation explains how Øbama is lying when he says his 'ØbamaCare' won't force Americans on the public insurance program.

Americans have every reason to be suspicious that the public plan is just the first step on the road to single-payer care. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has explicitly said so. So has Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI). And in 1993, President Barack Obama told the AFL-CIO: “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.

… And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately.” Everybody in out, nobody out; that’s Obama’s ultimate goal.

And with the public plan, he’s not going to force Americans to get there, he’s just gonna make it impossible for them to choose anything else.

Yep...his lips are moving...

The Gunslinger

The Health Care Lie

Can I just make this point.

Universal Medical Coverage does not mean Universal Medical Care.

Universal Medical Insurance does not mean Universal Medical Access.

Progressives never make the distinction. And too often, citizens get fooled by the sleight-of-language. And the distinction is critical.

They are promising universal insurance...not universal access to adequate care.

Don't let them get away with it!

The Gunslinger

Specter Should Probably Shut Up Now

.

This man is a pestilence.

Can I just say "good riddance" again? This sleaze box belongs with the Progressives. He was a blot on the reputation of the Republican Party.

His comments make no sense, of course. But the intent was to imply that the Conservative agenda is responsible not curing cancer.

He condemns the Republicans because they didn't adopt the Progressive agenda to fight the War on Cancer.

After all, look how well it's done in the War on Poverty, and the War on Drugs.

The Gunslinger

ZerO Charms the Virus

Swine Flue is going to kill us all. Just listen to the news.

And Obama is swinging into more speeches....protecting us all against this "killer" which first showed up in Mexico.

Well, he's doing everything except actually closing the borders so sick Mexicans can't get into the country and infect us all.

Oh...and not testing travelers from Mexico into the U.S.

I guess ZerO figures even viruses will be in awe of his speechifying and posing—and do whatever he wants. Now, that's narcissism!

The Gunslinger

Don't Get Sick

I guess we don't have to wait for Socialized Medicine to reap the "benefits" of bad medicine.

"The press* hailed it as a victory for patients. People harmed by drugs can sue the manufacturers, the Supreme Court recently ruled, even when the firms have scrupulously complied with all FDA rules.

But the decision will prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for patients. In the long run it will hurt countless thousands desperately needing innovative drug treatments."

The Supreme Court has just denied untold numbers of patients the benefits of innovative drugs, and the drug companies of what little defense against lawsuits, and ability to engage in normal business they still had.

Nice. I hope Ginsberg's cancer drugs don't get pulled off the market while she still needs them.

The world actually is spinning out of control. Where did all the adults go?

The Gunslinger

*More due diligence by the slobbering idiots of the Media. Thanks again, boys.

Nothing Like "Progressive" Medicine

Welcome to Socialized Medicine, America.

Remember, you asked for it.

The Gunslinger

Form a Queue To Die

Some things just piss me off. I'm like that. But this isn't a question of annoying or irritating or politically objectionable...this is literally Life & Death.

This is what Socialized Medicine looks like.

Once again, real world, actual, living examples are ignored in favor of Liberal Utopian Phantasmagoria in the simple-minded.

Maybe there is an argument for eugenics, after all.

The Gunslinger

Just Don't Get Sick

Nationalized Healthcare....or, rather, let's call it what it is: Socialized Medicine...coming to a broken down, understaffed, fabulously expensive, corrupt, dirty clinic near you.

Don't forget to wash your hands after you've been there.

Here's a hint of Zero's plan.

Paying for Government Healthcare, Madoff Style, by Douglas O'Brien

The Gunslinger