Thursday, March 26, 2009

10 Reasons Why Obama's Healthcare Plan Will Screw Us

Europeans and Canadians have government-run health care... Just like the kind Stupid wants to establish here. So consider...

1) Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.

2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.

3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.

4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.

5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.

6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long -- sometimes more than a year -- to see a specialist, to have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get radiation treatment for cancer.

7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.

8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.

9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K.

10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.
from AskHeritage.Org

Note: If your family is rich, then your healthcare will continue to be top notch! But if you're poor or middle class, you're out of luck. If you're over 70... You're totally screwed.

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3 comments:

Tsofah said...

True,too true, all too true...

Oh crap! Yep, we're screwed!

Christina said...

One key issue to include is that in America, people with disabilities are still seen as people with equal rights, whereas in a country with socialized medicine, those people (say with Downs Syndrome) would be aborted before even being given a chance at life, or if they survived being born, would be left to die, simply because it would not be cost effective for them to live.

The whole system is based on cost-effectiveness instead of caring for people. That has to violate the Hippocratic Oath.

ChuckL said...

Interestingly, the Hippocratic Oath has "evolved" during the course of the legalization of abortion. I suspect that it can change again to accommodate the new reality of Darwinistic socialized health care.