02The media loves torture porn if the victims are the “right” people:
This stamp of approval from on high will no doubt prove fleeting, however. If Saw XII were to depict the slaughter of federal bureaucrats running Obamacare’s proposed Health Choices Administration, I doubt the filmmakers will find themselves greeted with the same degree of gleeful let’s-revel-in-the-social-satire!critical panache.
Jigsaw sounds like someone who would get along really well with Stalin, Mao or Che Guavara:
The (perhaps unintentional) well from which much of the horror of the Saw series has previously been drawn — presuming you empathize with the victims — is the staggering amount of suffering someone who believes they are doing what’s in the best interest of uncooperative others can inflict. The more Jigsaw moralizes, the wider he throws his net, greater the indictment of messianic do-gooderism grows.
Socialist health care horror story from Canada. This is the kind of crap Obama would love to inflict on us.
Progressive arrogance on parade.
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Their increasing anxiety and fear of failure are typified in the words of the leader of their party, who wants Republicans to keep their mouths shut while he “fixes” health care.
“I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking,” the president said Thursday at a political rally in Virginia. “I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.”
So much for the promises of bipartisan lawmaking. So much for open discussion. So much for understanding who really caused the “mess” in the first place. Like Al Gore claiming the debate about global warming is over, the White House simply wants to shut down dialogue over who controls more than one-seventh of the economy.
Now, why do we need socialized health care again?
Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition than you might suppose. By Scott W. Atlas.
Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers, and academics beat the drum for a far larger government role in health care. Much of the public assumes that their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. Before we turn to government as the solution, however, we should consider some unheralded facts about America’s health care system.
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“Rationing” is supposed to evoke the horror of utilitarianism, but frankly, millions of ordinary Americans are already de facto utilitarians and don’t see that as a bad thing. As long as they aren’t the ones experiencing the utilitarianism. Idiots who go mountain climbing and get stranded and use up tens of thousands of dollars from state coffers to get rescued should’ve been left on the mountain to die — unless those mountain climbers just happen to be members of your family, and then… well, that’s different…
That’s where the “waiting list” and “line up” trope comes in. People can’t imagine they’d ever be denied precious care by some bureaucrat who wishes they’d just die first. But they can more easily picture themselves stranded on a stretcher in an emergency room for two days — and needless to say, they don’t care much for that prospect.
My free advice to you is:
Stop talking about “rationing” and start talking about “waiting in line.”
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If you prize choosing your own cardiologist or urologist under your company’s Preferred Provider Organization plan (PPO), if your employer rewards your non-smoking, healthy lifestyle with reduced premiums, if you love the bargain Health Savings Account (HSA) that insures you just for the essentials, or if you simply take comfort in the freedom to spend your own money for a policy that covers the newest drugs and diagnostic tests — you may be shocked to learn that you could lose all of those good things under the rules proposed in the two bills that herald a health-care revolution.
In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage — including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money — but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can’t have. It’s a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.
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As is typical in many large urban centers, many of Chicago’s poor were visiting hospital emergency rooms for non-emergencies. While she was a highly-paid Vice President at the prestigious University of Chicago Medical Center, Mrs. Obama duly concocted the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) as a solution.
Under the UHI, Medicaid/Medicare patients were redirected from the Medical Center’s ER, to small, faraway clinics — thus freeing up the Medical Center’s precious resources (critics say) for the exclusive use of wealthier patients with private insurance.
If you don’t want:
- Wait-times/rationing of health care.
- Some bureaucrat telling you what treatments you may have and what doctors you may see.
- The elderly, the very sick and the very weak put in the back of the line with the hope that they will die before getting treatment.
- Your most personal decisions in the hands of the government.
Then please sign this petition.
We’re always being told what a super-smart genius Obama is. Then why does he think painkillers can be used to treat heart arrhythmias?
There may be a more sinister explanation, as a Hot Air commenter pointed out. Perhaps he means that these troublesome patients should just quit burdening the system and take a fatal overdose of painkillers.
I guess this means Obama is either stupid or heartless.
