An Excellent Analysis of What You Will Receive Under Obamacare
If you really think this is better than the U.S. pack your bags and emigrate
7.29.2009
When you hear politicians and misguided experts talk about how great healthcare is in the UK (and Canada, Cuba, etc.), the devil is in the details they don’t mention.
Here’s an excellent article from American Thinker that you might want to read.
May 15, 2009
The Cost of Free Government Health Care
By David Gibberman
Proponents of government-run health care like to point out that countries with such a system spend a smaller percentage of their gross domestic product on health care than the United States. What they don't like to mention is how those savings are achieved. For example:
Patients Lose the Right To Decide What Treatment They'll Receive. Instead, patients receive whatever care politicians and bureaucratic number crunchers decide is "cost effective."
Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence usually won't approve a medical procedure or medicine unless its cost, divided by the number of quality-adjusted life years that it will give a patient, is no more than what it values a year of life in great health - £30,000 (about $44,820). So if you want a medical procedure that is expected to extend your life by four years but it costs $40,000 and bureaucrats decide that it will improve the quality of your life by 0.2 (death is zero, 1.0 is best possible health, and negative values can be assigned), you're out of luck because $40,000 divided by 0.8 (4 X 0.2) is $50,000.
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7/26/2009
How about the intrusiveness of the drug industry? They have manufactured drugs for "every little thing wrong with us," convinced us that pills solve all our health needs, and, I'm sure, reward doctors for prescribing them. I consider the government a lesser evil than the corporate culture in America. I say, if you want government out of our lives, change the culture of corporate America. We are deceived, lured and exploited. GM is the prime example: they spent billions lobbying AGAINST greater fuel efficiency standards. The drug and health care industry is no different. It's about profits---not about the people's welfare!
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2.8.2010
When the Census Clowns Come Knocking, Remind Them the U.S. Constitution Enumerates Exactly What You Need to Answer; and Nothing More
I love my country, but I am appalled by my government
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The Republicans Had 6+ Years to Legislate Changes to America's Health Care Problems
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Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Honest Al Say's Planet Core Millions of Degrees Hot
For all the hoopla, earth's atmospheric temperature has risen one half of 1% in the last 100 years.
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Meet Ted Cruz, the Republican Obama
Republican leadership must speak to the values of mainstream Americans; there are few doing that. The Republican Party must elect people who have firm principles; backbone and the ability to communicate.
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American Prisoner Labor to Put More Americans on Unemployment
The title of their new playbook should be: American Gulag by Barry Soetoro and Van Jones
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THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATEGATE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PARADIGM CHANGE
What Might They Have in Common?
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