Can't Wait For That Government Run Health Care
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 10:30AM (FLP Opinion) - It was revealed yesterday by a group called the Rare Cancers Forum that more than 20,000 cancer patients have died prematurely in Great Britain due to rationing by the National Health Service.
Gee, with "service" like that, I can hardly wait for the liberals to launch the same broken-down health care system here! Here's the detail from The Daily Mail:
Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly early after being denied cancer drugs on the NHS, it was revealed yesterday.
The rationing body NICE has failed to keep a promise to make more life-extending drugs available.
Treatments used widely in the U.S. and Europe have been rejected on grounds of cost-effectiveness, yet patients and their loved ones have seen the NHS waste astronomical sums.
Last week it emerged that £21billion - a fifth of the entire annual budget - was spent on failed schemes to tackle inequality.
NICE, the National Institute of health and Clinical Excellence, promised a year ago to make it easier for drugs for rarer cancers to be approved.
But since then four drugs which could have benefited 16,000 people have been turned down outright and a further six which could have helped 4,000 more have been provisionally rejected.
If government run health care is instituted in this country and you're someone with a history of cancer in your family, there is a good chance that you or a family member will eventually be put in peril by this system. The information coming out of Great Britain proves that point.
At the end of the day, this is a power grab plain and simple - it has nothing to do with health care, just as it didn't when the Soviet Union instituted it. It's about claiming power over the populace, and what better way to do so than through the health and well-being of the citizenry.
The arrogance that the Left has shown throughout this debate is stunning. Consider that they're about to pass the largest entitlement program in the history of this country without one vote from the minority party. In addition to that, it is expected that somewhere in the range of 40 moderate Congressional Democrats will also vote against its passage. And to top it off, the American people stand firmly against this monstrosity - even in the most liberal polls.
Democrats have finally shown us what they really are. Socialists, or worse. It's time for the American public to show them what we think of their ilk by kicking as many to the curb as possible come November.
Our lives may literally depend on it.
Reader Comments (3)
Spot on commentary. The arrogance shown by these swine is incredible. We have to hope they pay in large enough numbers over the next two election cycles to undue anything they have passed.
"The arrogance that the Left has shown throughout this debate is stunning. Consider that they're about to pass the largest entitlement program in the history of this country without one vote from the minority party. In addition to that, it is expected that somewhere in the range of 40 moderate Congressional Democrats will also vote against its passage. And to top it off, the American people stand firmly against this monstrosity - even in the most liberal polls."
Can't say it any better than that. It's a freaking travesty.
I'm tired of hearing "Elections have consequences".
If this monstrosity passes, the Dim's will find out that "Actions have consequences", and they'll be routed in every election cycle until Obamacare is repealed and replaced by commonsense conservative solutions. I just hope I live long enough to see it.