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Thursday, June 05, 2008

NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE WOULD KILL TEDDY KENNEDY

NY POST:
... governments that promise to "cover everyone" always wind up cutting corners simply to save money. People with Kennedy's condition are dying or dead as a result.

Consider Jennifer Bell of Norwich, England. In 2006, the 22-year-old complained of headaches for months - but Britain's National Health Service made her wait a year to see a neurologist.

Then she had to wait more than three months before should could get what the NHS decided was only a "relatively urgent" MRI scan. Threedays before the MRI appointment, she died.

Consider, too, the chemo drug Kennedy is receiving: Temodar, the first oral medicine for brain tumors in 25 years.

Temodar has been widely used in this country since the FDA approved it in 2000. But a British health-care rationing agency, the National Institute for Comparative Effectiveness, ruled that, while the drug helps people live longer, it wasn't worth the money - and denied coverage for it.

Barack Obama - and other Democrats - have been pushing a Senate bill to set up a similar US "review board" for Medicare and any future government health-care plan.
THE LEFT ADVOCATES SOCIALIZING HEALTHCARE AND MAKING OUR SYSTEM MORE LIKE BRITAIN'S, WHICH THE BRITISH THINK SUCKS.

THE BRITISH ARE RIGHT.

IF YOU LIKE THE CARE TEDDY IS GETTING, THEN YOU MUSTN'T SUPPORT ANY DEMOCRAT.

4 comments:

Pastorius said...

You're saying, Nationalized Healthcare will do justice for Mary Jo Kopechne?

Sign me up.

Reliapundit said...

ha!

actually,

teddy wants a healthcare system to do to you what he did to MJK.

Pastorius said...

Couldn't we just use him as the test case?

Reliapundit said...

life is not fair: he's getting care MJK never got.

but there's justice at the end...