Bumper sticker mentalities —— DO NOT READ
For seven years Republicans ran on repealing Obamacare. They lied because they never intended to repeal Obamacare. Nobody in Congress will take billions in co-payments away from the insurance industry, or from Wall Street parasites. Trump & Company must think conservatives cannot see the same lies coming after the 2020 elections.
I cannot speak for conservatives, but this conservative will not vote for Trump. My mind is made up. I intend to cast a write-in ballot for Pinocchio.
Also, I am not sure I will vote for a Republicans running for Congress.
To me, it is better to let the Democrats run the country off a cliff than it is to vote for establishment Republicans who have been killing the country inch by inch right alongside Democrats.
I firmly believe that the country hitting rock bottom is the only thing that will make the American people so fed up they will do whatever it takes to get back their stolen liberties —— stolen by Democrats incrementally since 1945.
Socialists/Communists pushing the country going over a cliff faster than I thought possible is a blessing in disguise:
I could spend all of my time dissecting the lies told by individual Democrats to save the ACA but why bother? It is fair play to assume they are all lying. Oh hell! Why assume? I know they are all lying! There is no way in this world Democrats are going to allow important choices to remain in the individual’s hands. And just as I predicted in 2008 Democrat socialized medicine (OBAMACARE in 2010) gave the country one gigantic, government-enforced, HMO with new horrors added to the existing ones.
Long before the ACA was rammed down the public’s throat I posted many messages about the inherent cruelty built into universal healthcare. I often cited a million or so mindless, viciousness, parasites would be sure to get jobs in the healthcare industry. As it turned out I underestimated the number; it is 4,000,000 parasites for STARTERS according to Nutso:
NOTE: Remember when Sarah Palin was attacked by liberals for her opposition to death panels before the public found out what was in the bill. The death panels that Democrats swore were not part of their proposed bill are, indeed, in the bill. Even today, in spite of everything that is known about the ACA, a venomous woman like Nancy Pelosi is put forth as a wonderful human being full of compassion, while Sarah remains the villain to liberals.
Keep your own doctor
Then-Senator Hillary Clinton lied about keeping your own doctor before the Chicago sewer rat said it.
VIDEOS ▼
https://www.google.com/search?sourc....0j1......0....2j1..gws-wiz.....0.pHCqgdnxqeg
Both told the same lies, but the sewer rat beat her out for the nomination.
Candidate Clinton promoting Hillarycare II cleverly used the words “American” and “Choices” knowing damn well that there are no choices in socialized medicine:
Of course her choices were campaign lies:
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2007/september/hillary_clintons_a.php
At first I thought it was darn swell of Hillary to allow individuals to keep their doctor if they have one. A close examination of her blessing reveals that she is not so choice-oriented when it came to anyone entering the system for the first time. Senator Clinton never said how much choice she allows when an individual changes doctors. Nor did the gruppenführer say what happens to choice when it comes to seeing a specialist for the first time?
In short: Keep your own doctor only implied that you could choose your own doctor. Based on statements made by Hillary Clinton, and every other Democrat, you had to select a doctor from a list provided by the government if your doctor retired, or if you changed doctors for any reason (moving to another city, etc.), or you need a specialist.
Aside from a loss of choice, the ACA meant that American taxpayers have to work harder to pay for free healthcare for strangers. Working harder does not guarantee that two working spouses will get more coverage for their own families in return for keeping less of their incomes. Productive Americans will get less of everything including a lot less individual liberty even without coverage for the millions of illegal aliens that Democrats sneaked into their legislation in addition to 10,535 regulations.
The “Keep your own doctor” lie is the most dangerous lie of all because patients cannot avoid the lousy doctors the ACA forces on the sick. It is either a bum or no doctor at all.
Before the ACA was passed I said it was an affirmative action program. “You can keep your own doctor” was an obvious lie at the time. Forcing white patients to see non-white doctors irrespective of the doctor’s competence was the goal. The predicted shortage of doctors guarantied that medical schools would lower standards in order to rush “non-white doctors” into the system.
Forcing white patients to see non-white doctors is the one thing Republicans and Democrats will never relinquish in any healthcare plan. You can bet your ass that any so-called Republican healthcare law will include the “We’s all God’s chillun” commandment.
Not only will many Americans be forced to go to government doctors like Joseph Mengele, the attitude among everybody in the healthcare industry will shift to where the poor and the frightened will be treated like dirt and/or guinea pigs. Today, Americans can still refuse recommended treatment, medication, and surgery. Signing up for the ACA has one ironclad guarantee: Your Right of refusal will disappear with compassion. See the Eric Hoffer quote following my signature.
Parenthetically, butchers seldom lost their licenses, or did jail time, before the ACA. What the hell do you think it is like now that 98 percent of the ACA is still on the books? Not only will butchers and run of the mill incompetent doctors and nurses get more protection under the ACA, every filthy immigrant parasite flocking to jobs in socialized medicine that harms a patient intentionally, or unintentionally, will have the additional protection of their labor union. The ranks, and the coffers, of the SEIU are expected to overflow after millions of parasites start paying dues with tax dollars.
Also, the awards in malpractice lawsuits were always the principal reason hospitals and doctors were kept in line. More so than jail time, or the Hippocratic oath sworn by doctors. Malpractice awards are limited under the ACA. So-called Tort Reform means limits on malpractice awards and patient protection irrespective of the claims made by ACA advocates.
I can understand Republicans wanting to reduce the incomes of trial lawyers, one of the Democrat party’s core constituencies, but why would Democrats go along with tort reform if not to protect healthcare professionals by limiting awards handed out by juries? Answer: There are a lot more parasites than there are trial lawyers on election day.
Socialized medicine abroad
Socialized medicine’s champions always praise socialized medicine in countries like England, Canada, and Cuba. Here is a few words about socialized medicine in foreign countries to show that it is far from wonderful.
For every horror story the Left tells about people without healthcare, there are 1000 horror stories done to the sick under socialized medicine.
Before listing the horrors lets look at the reason Democrats shutdown the government over the ACA rather than delay its implementation. Notice that the millions of parasites are not mentioned alongside the millions of beneficiaries:
In short: Democrats know that once parasites are seated at the public trough it will be impossible to unseat them. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, ever loses government funding. In fact, the opposite is always true. Once funding begins it grows and grows until “It is too big to fail.” Millions of parasites will bring the ACA to that point faster than any previous program got there. Call it funding on steroids.
Now take a look at a few horrors that came with socialized medicine in just one hospital.
The inhuman treatment mentioned in the above excerpt were perpetrated by the same personality types who will rule the millions of parasites who staff hospitals, clinics, and testing labs in every state. You can take this to the bank. Nobody in government will suffer at the hands of the cruel bums they are hiring for the rest of us. Elected officials and government employees will receive the best of care just as they do in every Communist country. Patient care in the nation’s capital will excel in every respect.
Great Britain’s wonderful socialized medicine is a road map to where the lying sack of shit’s ACA took the country.
Patient protection?
Do not confuse the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with actual patient protection since it does nothing to protect the already sick against fatal infections, incompetent doctors and nurses, addictive drugs, death panels, and AIDS-tainted blood from Africa.
I would be remiss if I did not mention AIDS contaminated blood purchased in Africa.
American blood banks purchase a lot of blood from Third World countries; primarily countries in Africa. Thirty or so years ago the tragedy of using blood contaminated by HIV/AIDS was rampant.
https://www.google.com/search?ei=ia...3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.8AIhGHuSA5o
Safeguards were almost non-existent because blood banks maximize profits. Hospitals never showed an interest in making sure the blood they were giving patients was clean because our friends in the media never gave the scandal the coverage it deserved.
Have you ever wondered why the MSM dropped the contaminated-blood issue? The practice of buying blood from Africa was not stopped but the reporting was. It is not logical to believe that blood contaminated with AIDS is kept out the system at the same time the U.N. is always sucking around for more money to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
As bad as contaminated blood is, how many Americans know that staph infections picked up in hospitals kills more people every year than does AIDS? Today’s totals are hard to pin down because hospital lobbies, and United Nations charity hustlers, have a vested interest in awarding the title to AIDS; nevertheless, I doubt if anything has changed since 2007:
Before hundreds of billions more tax dollars are sent into the healthcare system —— hospital deaths caused by hospitals should be reduced to zero.
Aside from the other horrors the number of patients that die each year in hospitals from infections they picked up in the hospital is tragic beyond words.
One of my heartfelt reforms focused on hospital deaths caused by staph infections that patients pick up in unsanitary hospitals. Conditions will worsen after millions of parasites get jobs with lifetime tenure attached. Unions will see to it that no dues-paying, filthy, lazy bum will ever be fired.
J. R. Dunn puts deaths from iatrogenic "superbug" infection at 30,000 a year in Great Britain. This excerpt is from the same article about Sarah Plain:
Based on populations alone, American hospitals are only slightly better than hospital-caused deaths in the U.K. America’s population is over 300,000,000 while the U.K. has a population of 61,000,000. The number of deaths caused by hospitals is higher in Great Britain. That will change due to the aforementioned protections the ACA will provide for parasite scum.
Even if you cite the number of deaths caused by US hospitals the number of deaths from staph infections in the U.K. is a condemnation of socialized medicine everywhere. Hospital-caused deaths is a fair argument to use against those who point to socialized medicine in the U.K. as a model of compassion and efficiency.
Incidentally, the lower number of deaths in US hospitals has a lot to with lawsuits, and the fact that cruel indifference is yet to reach the levels found in U.K. hospitals.
Stimulus for patients
The public is treated to a wonderful image of a successful industry saving lives. The public seldom hears about the filth that hospital patients are subjected to every day. I would give another penny to the medical industry until that industry cleans up its act from top to bottom —— and I mean a provable permanent housecleaning. Before hundreds of billions of tax dollars are added to the healthcare system —— hospital deaths caused by unsanitary conditions should be reduced to zero.
The unsanitary conditions in existing hospitals has long been one of my complaints. Conditions can only worsen after the parasites dominate hospital staffs. My contention has been that single-occupancy rooms would go a long way towards reducing infections acquired in hospitals, not to mention improving overall patient comfort and care.
I suggested that existing hospitals be given five or so years to convert to single occupancy rooms. Any hospital failing to comply after the grace period has elapsed would lose ALL government reimbursements —— federal and state. Such a move toward reform on behalf of patients instead of reform designed to enrich insurance companies and Wall Street would spark a wave of new, “healthier” hospitals once the cost of new construction is compared to the cost of conversion.
Since hospitals are profit-making enterprises the owners could be given tax breaks to make the transition. I would not give them a penny of taxpayer money directly whether they build new, or convert existing hospitals. There is also a built-in financial stimulus to an economy that everybody in Washington always tells us needs fixing; a stimulus that actually helps everyone rather than just enriching insurance company executives and Wall Street sharpshooters.
Anybody who wants to followup can find plenty of medical horror stories out there that have nothing to do with lack of coverage. Here are two articles that will give you a good handle on where socialized medicine ends up:
Here is one I never saw coming. I did not see that the doctor-shortage would be partially filled by incompetent foreign doctors. That is exactly where the ACA went.
Half of foreign doctors would not be able to practise in Britain if they were subjected to the same level of scrutiny as British doctors, a study by University College London has found
By Sarah Knapton, Science Correspondent
12:01AM BST 18 Apr 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...eign-doctors-are-below-British-standards.html
President Trump says Republicans will pass "a great health care package" after the 2020 election.
Trump Backs Off Obamacare Replacement After Top GOP Leader Nixes The Idea
Brian Naylor Twitter
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02/7091...placement-after-top-gop-leader-nixes-the-idea
Brian Naylor Twitter
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02/7091...placement-after-top-gop-leader-nixes-the-idea
For seven years Republicans ran on repealing Obamacare. They lied because they never intended to repeal Obamacare. Nobody in Congress will take billions in co-payments away from the insurance industry, or from Wall Street parasites. Trump & Company must think conservatives cannot see the same lies coming after the 2020 elections.
I cannot speak for conservatives, but this conservative will not vote for Trump. My mind is made up. I intend to cast a write-in ballot for Pinocchio.
Also, I am not sure I will vote for a Republicans running for Congress.
To me, it is better to let the Democrats run the country off a cliff than it is to vote for establishment Republicans who have been killing the country inch by inch right alongside Democrats.
I firmly believe that the country hitting rock bottom is the only thing that will make the American people so fed up they will do whatever it takes to get back their stolen liberties —— stolen by Democrats incrementally since 1945.
Socialists/Communists pushing the country going over a cliff faster than I thought possible is a blessing in disguise:
I could spend all of my time dissecting the lies told by individual Democrats to save the ACA but why bother? It is fair play to assume they are all lying. Oh hell! Why assume? I know they are all lying! There is no way in this world Democrats are going to allow important choices to remain in the individual’s hands. And just as I predicted in 2008 Democrat socialized medicine (OBAMACARE in 2010) gave the country one gigantic, government-enforced, HMO with new horrors added to the existing ones.
Long before the ACA was rammed down the public’s throat I posted many messages about the inherent cruelty built into universal healthcare. I often cited a million or so mindless, viciousness, parasites would be sure to get jobs in the healthcare industry. As it turned out I underestimated the number; it is 4,000,000 parasites for STARTERS according to Nutso:
NOTE: Remember when Sarah Palin was attacked by liberals for her opposition to death panels before the public found out what was in the bill. The death panels that Democrats swore were not part of their proposed bill are, indeed, in the bill. Even today, in spite of everything that is known about the ACA, a venomous woman like Nancy Pelosi is put forth as a wonderful human being full of compassion, while Sarah remains the villain to liberals.
August 20, 2009
Palin v. ObamaCare
By J. R. Dunn
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/08/palin_v_obamacare.html
Palin v. ObamaCare
By J. R. Dunn
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/08/palin_v_obamacare.html
Keep your own doctor
Then-Senator Hillary Clinton lied about keeping your own doctor before the Chicago sewer rat said it.
VIDEOS ▼
https://www.google.com/search?sourc....0j1......0....2j1..gws-wiz.....0.pHCqgdnxqeg
Both told the same lies, but the sewer rat beat her out for the nomination.
Candidate Clinton promoting Hillarycare II cleverly used the words “American” and “Choices” knowing damn well that there are no choices in socialized medicine:
The American Health Choices Plan: Ensuring Affordable, Quality, Health Care for All Americans
Hillary for President
September 17, 2007
Hillary for President
September 17, 2007
Of course her choices were campaign lies:
1) Keep Current Health Care Coverage: Americans who are satisfied with the coverage they have today can keep it.
2) A Choice of Health Plan Options: Businesses, employees, and the uninsured will have the option of buying group insurance through a new Health Choices Menu. This Menu will give all Americans the same set of insurance options that their Member of Congress has. Without creating new bureaucracy, the Menu will be part of the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP), which includes numerous, high-quality private health insurance options.
3) A Choice of a Public Plan Option: In addition to the array of private insurance choices offered, the Health Choices Menu will also provide Americans with a choice of a public plan option, which could be modeled on the traditional Medicare program, but would cover the same benefits as guaranteed in private plan options in the Health Choices Menu without creating a new bureaucracy. The alternative will compete on a level playing field with traditional private insurance plans.
2) A Choice of Health Plan Options: Businesses, employees, and the uninsured will have the option of buying group insurance through a new Health Choices Menu. This Menu will give all Americans the same set of insurance options that their Member of Congress has. Without creating new bureaucracy, the Menu will be part of the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP), which includes numerous, high-quality private health insurance options.
3) A Choice of a Public Plan Option: In addition to the array of private insurance choices offered, the Health Choices Menu will also provide Americans with a choice of a public plan option, which could be modeled on the traditional Medicare program, but would cover the same benefits as guaranteed in private plan options in the Health Choices Menu without creating a new bureaucracy. The alternative will compete on a level playing field with traditional private insurance plans.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2007/september/hillary_clintons_a.php
At first I thought it was darn swell of Hillary to allow individuals to keep their doctor if they have one. A close examination of her blessing reveals that she is not so choice-oriented when it came to anyone entering the system for the first time. Senator Clinton never said how much choice she allows when an individual changes doctors. Nor did the gruppenführer say what happens to choice when it comes to seeing a specialist for the first time?
In short: Keep your own doctor only implied that you could choose your own doctor. Based on statements made by Hillary Clinton, and every other Democrat, you had to select a doctor from a list provided by the government if your doctor retired, or if you changed doctors for any reason (moving to another city, etc.), or you need a specialist.
Aside from a loss of choice, the ACA meant that American taxpayers have to work harder to pay for free healthcare for strangers. Working harder does not guarantee that two working spouses will get more coverage for their own families in return for keeping less of their incomes. Productive Americans will get less of everything including a lot less individual liberty even without coverage for the millions of illegal aliens that Democrats sneaked into their legislation in addition to 10,535 regulations.
The “Keep your own doctor” lie is the most dangerous lie of all because patients cannot avoid the lousy doctors the ACA forces on the sick. It is either a bum or no doctor at all.
Before the ACA was passed I said it was an affirmative action program. “You can keep your own doctor” was an obvious lie at the time. Forcing white patients to see non-white doctors irrespective of the doctor’s competence was the goal. The predicted shortage of doctors guarantied that medical schools would lower standards in order to rush “non-white doctors” into the system.
Forcing white patients to see non-white doctors is the one thing Republicans and Democrats will never relinquish in any healthcare plan. You can bet your ass that any so-called Republican healthcare law will include the “We’s all God’s chillun” commandment.
Not only will many Americans be forced to go to government doctors like Joseph Mengele, the attitude among everybody in the healthcare industry will shift to where the poor and the frightened will be treated like dirt and/or guinea pigs. Today, Americans can still refuse recommended treatment, medication, and surgery. Signing up for the ACA has one ironclad guarantee: Your Right of refusal will disappear with compassion. See the Eric Hoffer quote following my signature.
Parenthetically, butchers seldom lost their licenses, or did jail time, before the ACA. What the hell do you think it is like now that 98 percent of the ACA is still on the books? Not only will butchers and run of the mill incompetent doctors and nurses get more protection under the ACA, every filthy immigrant parasite flocking to jobs in socialized medicine that harms a patient intentionally, or unintentionally, will have the additional protection of their labor union. The ranks, and the coffers, of the SEIU are expected to overflow after millions of parasites start paying dues with tax dollars.
Also, the awards in malpractice lawsuits were always the principal reason hospitals and doctors were kept in line. More so than jail time, or the Hippocratic oath sworn by doctors. Malpractice awards are limited under the ACA. So-called Tort Reform means limits on malpractice awards and patient protection irrespective of the claims made by ACA advocates.
I can understand Republicans wanting to reduce the incomes of trial lawyers, one of the Democrat party’s core constituencies, but why would Democrats go along with tort reform if not to protect healthcare professionals by limiting awards handed out by juries? Answer: There are a lot more parasites than there are trial lawyers on election day.
Socialized medicine abroad
Socialized medicine’s champions always praise socialized medicine in countries like England, Canada, and Cuba. Here is a few words about socialized medicine in foreign countries to show that it is far from wonderful.
For every horror story the Left tells about people without healthcare, there are 1000 horror stories done to the sick under socialized medicine.
Before listing the horrors lets look at the reason Democrats shutdown the government over the ACA rather than delay its implementation. Notice that the millions of parasites are not mentioned alongside the millions of beneficiaries:
President Obama’s refusal to sign a bill defunding or delaying his health care law and Republicans’ insistence that such measures be a part of any bill to continue funding government are what precipitated the ongoing government shutdown. Both sides are staking out firm positions because they are operating on the same assumption – that once Obamacare starts to roll out subsidies on Jan. 1., it will be impossible to undo, no matter how much of a disaster it is. Based on the experience across the pond, this may be exactly right.
As the Washington Examiner's Philip Klein detailed in an Oct. 3 special report from London, Britain's 65-year-old National Health Service is extraordinarily resistant to change.
As the Washington Examiner's Philip Klein detailed in an Oct. 3 special report from London, Britain's 65-year-old National Health Service is extraordinarily resistant to change.
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Starting on Jan. 1 Obamacare will add millions of beneficiaries to Medicaid and hand out subsidies for individuals to purchase insurance. Even if the changes Obamacare is making cause severe problems for the nation’s health care system, it will become exceedingly difficult as a political matter for Republicans to strip away benefits from those already receiving them, no matter how shabby the benefits are.
In short: Democrats know that once parasites are seated at the public trough it will be impossible to unseat them. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, ever loses government funding. In fact, the opposite is always true. Once funding begins it grows and grows until “It is too big to fail.” Millions of parasites will bring the ACA to that point faster than any previous program got there. Call it funding on steroids.
Now take a look at a few horrors that came with socialized medicine in just one hospital.
. . . the recent scandal at Stafford Hospital in Britain, where as many as 1,200 unnecessary deaths were blamed in a government report on the appalling state of care. Nurses put trays of food out of the reach of immobile patients and left people to relieve themselves in their own beds instead of helping them go to the bathroom. In some cases, patients even drank out of dirty flower vases in the hallways because they couldn’t get water anywhere else. Under the Liverpool Care Pathway – first developed in the late 1990s – thousands of families were uninformed when their loved ones were removed from life support, and in extreme cases relatives were scolded by nurses for trying to give water to their dying loved ones.
Examiner Editorial: Britain shows what Obamacare means for US
By Editorial Writer | OCTOBER 7, 2013 AT 5:32 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/examiner-editorial-britain-shows-what-obamacare-means-for-us
By Editorial Writer | OCTOBER 7, 2013 AT 5:32 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/examiner-editorial-britain-shows-what-obamacare-means-for-us
The inhuman treatment mentioned in the above excerpt were perpetrated by the same personality types who will rule the millions of parasites who staff hospitals, clinics, and testing labs in every state. You can take this to the bank. Nobody in government will suffer at the hands of the cruel bums they are hiring for the rest of us. Elected officials and government employees will receive the best of care just as they do in every Communist country. Patient care in the nation’s capital will excel in every respect.
Great Britain’s wonderful socialized medicine is a road map to where the lying sack of shit’s ACA took the country.
Patient protection?
Do not confuse the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with actual patient protection since it does nothing to protect the already sick against fatal infections, incompetent doctors and nurses, addictive drugs, death panels, and AIDS-tainted blood from Africa.
I would be remiss if I did not mention AIDS contaminated blood purchased in Africa.
American blood banks purchase a lot of blood from Third World countries; primarily countries in Africa. Thirty or so years ago the tragedy of using blood contaminated by HIV/AIDS was rampant.
https://www.google.com/search?ei=ia...3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.8AIhGHuSA5o
Safeguards were almost non-existent because blood banks maximize profits. Hospitals never showed an interest in making sure the blood they were giving patients was clean because our friends in the media never gave the scandal the coverage it deserved.
Have you ever wondered why the MSM dropped the contaminated-blood issue? The practice of buying blood from Africa was not stopped but the reporting was. It is not logical to believe that blood contaminated with AIDS is kept out the system at the same time the U.N. is always sucking around for more money to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
As bad as contaminated blood is, how many Americans know that staph infections picked up in hospitals kills more people every year than does AIDS? Today’s totals are hard to pin down because hospital lobbies, and United Nations charity hustlers, have a vested interest in awarding the title to AIDS; nevertheless, I doubt if anything has changed since 2007:
Oct. 16, 2007 -- It appears that more people in the U.S. now die from the mostly hospital-acquired staph infection MRSA than from AIDS, according to a new report from the CDC.
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems...20071016/more-us-deaths-from-mrsa-than-aids#1
WebMD Health News
https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems...20071016/more-us-deaths-from-mrsa-than-aids#1
Before hundreds of billions more tax dollars are sent into the healthcare system —— hospital deaths caused by hospitals should be reduced to zero.
Aside from the other horrors the number of patients that die each year in hospitals from infections they picked up in the hospital is tragic beyond words.
One of my heartfelt reforms focused on hospital deaths caused by staph infections that patients pick up in unsanitary hospitals. Conditions will worsen after millions of parasites get jobs with lifetime tenure attached. Unions will see to it that no dues-paying, filthy, lazy bum will ever be fired.
J. R. Dunn puts deaths from iatrogenic "superbug" infection at 30,000 a year in Great Britain. This excerpt is from the same article about Sarah Plain:
The British National Health Service, the mother of all nationalized health systems, has had what amounts to a "death panel" system since 2005. Under the terms of the Mental Capacity Act, patients unable to communicate with hospital personnel are considered to be "due to die" and are removed from all forms of life support, including food and water. In other words, given the same treatment meted out to Terry Schiavo.
The most notorious recent case involving this act occurred last year when Mrs. Ellen Westwood, an 88-year-old retiree, entered Birmingham's Selly Oak hospital for shoulder surgery. While recovering she caught the inevitable iatrogenic "superbug" infection, a daily occurrence in British hospitals, and one which costs up to 30,000 lives a year. Without further ado, the Selly Oak doctors declared Mrs. Westwood "due to die" and began the process of shutting her down.
The most notorious recent case involving this act occurred last year when Mrs. Ellen Westwood, an 88-year-old retiree, entered Birmingham's Selly Oak hospital for shoulder surgery. While recovering she caught the inevitable iatrogenic "superbug" infection, a daily occurrence in British hospitals, and one which costs up to 30,000 lives a year. Without further ado, the Selly Oak doctors declared Mrs. Westwood "due to die" and began the process of shutting her down.
Based on populations alone, American hospitals are only slightly better than hospital-caused deaths in the U.K. America’s population is over 300,000,000 while the U.K. has a population of 61,000,000. The number of deaths caused by hospitals is higher in Great Britain. That will change due to the aforementioned protections the ACA will provide for parasite scum.
Even if you cite the number of deaths caused by US hospitals the number of deaths from staph infections in the U.K. is a condemnation of socialized medicine everywhere. Hospital-caused deaths is a fair argument to use against those who point to socialized medicine in the U.K. as a model of compassion and efficiency.
Incidentally, the lower number of deaths in US hospitals has a lot to with lawsuits, and the fact that cruel indifference is yet to reach the levels found in U.K. hospitals.
Stimulus for patients
The public is treated to a wonderful image of a successful industry saving lives. The public seldom hears about the filth that hospital patients are subjected to every day. I would give another penny to the medical industry until that industry cleans up its act from top to bottom —— and I mean a provable permanent housecleaning. Before hundreds of billions of tax dollars are added to the healthcare system —— hospital deaths caused by unsanitary conditions should be reduced to zero.
The unsanitary conditions in existing hospitals has long been one of my complaints. Conditions can only worsen after the parasites dominate hospital staffs. My contention has been that single-occupancy rooms would go a long way towards reducing infections acquired in hospitals, not to mention improving overall patient comfort and care.
I suggested that existing hospitals be given five or so years to convert to single occupancy rooms. Any hospital failing to comply after the grace period has elapsed would lose ALL government reimbursements —— federal and state. Such a move toward reform on behalf of patients instead of reform designed to enrich insurance companies and Wall Street would spark a wave of new, “healthier” hospitals once the cost of new construction is compared to the cost of conversion.
Since hospitals are profit-making enterprises the owners could be given tax breaks to make the transition. I would not give them a penny of taxpayer money directly whether they build new, or convert existing hospitals. There is also a built-in financial stimulus to an economy that everybody in Washington always tells us needs fixing; a stimulus that actually helps everyone rather than just enriching insurance company executives and Wall Street sharpshooters.
Anybody who wants to followup can find plenty of medical horror stories out there that have nothing to do with lack of coverage. Here are two articles that will give you a good handle on where socialized medicine ends up:
JANUARY 8, 2009
Hospital Scrubs Are a Germy, Deadly Mess
Bacteria on doctor uniforms can kill you.
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123137245971962641
Hospital Scrubs Are a Germy, Deadly Mess
Bacteria on doctor uniforms can kill you.
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123137245971962641
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Deaths caused by hospital mistakes 'up 60 per cent in two years'
By Jon Swaine
Last Updated: 10:58AM GMT 06 Jan 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4...tal-mistakes-up-60-per-cent-in-two-years.html
By Jon Swaine
Last Updated: 10:58AM GMT 06 Jan 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4...tal-mistakes-up-60-per-cent-in-two-years.html
Here is one I never saw coming. I did not see that the doctor-shortage would be partially filled by incompetent foreign doctors. That is exactly where the ACA went.
Half of foreign doctors are below British standards
Half of foreign doctors would not be able to practise in Britain if they were subjected to the same level of scrutiny as British doctors, a study by University College London has found
By Sarah Knapton, Science Correspondent
12:01AM BST 18 Apr 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...eign-doctors-are-below-British-standards.html
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