I love this guy. His name is Mike Rogers, and he’s a congressman from Michigan. I wish he was in Indiana. While this is a bit dated, (July 2009), he makes some valid points.
Here’s how socialized healthcare has reached its grubby paws into the United Kingdom healthcare system.
Daughter claims father wrongly placed on controversial NHS end of life scheme.
The daughter of a stroke victim claims that her father is to be wrongly placed on an NHS scheme for the terminally ill which experts say is causing some patients to die too soon.
Rosemary Munkenbeck says her father Eric Troake, who entered hospital after suffering a stroke, had fluid and drugs withdrawn and she claims doctors wanted to put him on morphine until he passed away under a scheme for dying patients called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).
I lifted the letter at the bottom of this post from the Allen County Democrats web site. It’s from a woman named Carol Tvaroh that takes issue with Kevin Leininger’s recent article on healthcare. She claims some of the following.
What a load of horseshit. Now that the honorable Ted (I swam the tidal channel) Kennedy has passed away, liberal democrats are bellowing that a single-payer system should be passed in his honor. WTF?
Get real. If that’s now their primary reason for passage, it’s bound to fail. Now the shit hits the fan in Massachusetts. From WSJ.
On a day when members of both parties paid their respects to Mr. Kennedy, a Democratic icon who died this week of brain cancer, Republicans accused Democrats of hypocrisy. In 2004, the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature changed the law to prevent the governor from appointing an interim successor after a U.S. Senate seat becomes vacant. Instead, the new law requires that a special election be held between 145 and 165 days after the position becomes vacant.
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Now, with Mr. Kennedy dying three years before his term was up, some Massachusetts Democrats are reversing course, calling for Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint an interim replacement to hold office until the special election can be held. They now argue the state shouldn’t be without full Senate representation for months, especially with pressing issues such as health care before Congress.
VANCOUVER — Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday.
Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering chopping more than 6,000 surgeries in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200 million.
“This hasn’t been announced by the health authority … but these cuts are coming,” Dix said, citing figures gleaned from a leaked executive summary of “proposed VCH surgical reductions.”
Is that what you really want? If your answer is yes, move to Canada.
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