Bookworm on Jan 23 2013 | Filed under: Health
Tweet Many years ago, when Holland first enacted its euthanasia law, NPR ran an interview with a Dutchman who explained why euthanasia was a good idea in Holland, while it would be a terrible idea in America. The secret to Holland’s euthanasia, he said, was socialized medicine. The man explained that, in America, where medical [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet A few stories from England’s Daily Mail, all showing that the country is not in the best of health. Each of these stories highlights, not the horrible things individuals can do, because those crimes transcend national boundaries, but the way in which England has rendered itself unable to react in any way to the [...]
Bookworm on Jun 27 2010 | Filed under: England, Health
Tweet In a market economy, the marketplace drives the availability of goods and services. If there’s a big demand, the market will create a big supply; if the demand dries up, so does supply, as the market sends its resources elsewhere. Supply and demand, however, have no place in government controlled sectors of the economy. [...]
Bookworm on Apr 05 2010 | Filed under: England, Health
Tweet As the Soviet Union showed, by the time medicine is fully nationalized, careers in medicine have been reduced to the lowest status level, somewhere around street cleaning. Learning medicine and practicing medicine (including nursing, pharmacy, technical jobs, etc.), is incredibly time-consuming and, in a society that still has the gloss of being capitalist, costly. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 02 2009 | Filed under: Health
Tweet First, a joke, one I’ve told before: In long ago Japan or China (or amongst the Eskimos, or something else), a young boy came across his father carry a large basket on his back. In the basket was the boy’s grandfather. He asked, “Father, where are you taking grandfather?” “Shh,” said the father. “Grandfather [...]
Bookworm on Jul 12 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet Those who are pushing for universal health care here in America might want to take just a second to contemplate what Britain’s National Health Service (“NHS”) is doing in the area of teen sex. Because Britain has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe, which no doubt is quite costly to the NHS, you [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Europe, Health, Medicine
Tweet For three years, a single British hospital that was obsessed with following government health care mandates to the letter, succeeded only in killing 1,200 patients unnecessarily: Twelve NHS trusts are being investigated following a damning report which today slammed ‘appalling’ care at a single hospital. Hundreds of patients may have died after bosses at [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Health, Medicine
Tweet Again, Britain reminds us of the possible consequences of allowing the government to control health care. (See here and here.) As always, what amazes me about the Left is it’s never ending optimism about the government. Its members will cheerfully concede that the government pretty much bungles most of the things on which it [...]
Bookworm on Oct 05 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Medicine
Tweet From Genesis 3:16 (after the expulsion from Eden): To the woman He [God] said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. I’m feeling Biblical after having read a story about another one of the “miracles” of universal healthcare, as in effect in Britain: Hundreds of [...]
Bookworm on Jul 01 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England, Government, Medicine
Tweet I heard on Dennis Prager today a call from a British man who pointed out that, in the 10 years of Tony Blair’s socialism, every major institution in Britain declined. And the more the government meddled, the greater the decline. Today’s British papers offer yet another example: The dental portion of the National Health [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England, France, Health, Islam, John McCain, Medicine, Muslim violence
Tweet Britain’s Telegraph has three interesting articles, and the London Times one: Read about the vast difference between Britain’s and France’s socialized medicine. I’d certainly like to know what accounts for the difference before I start making changes to the American system. Color me skeptical, but I bet Obama, who shows himself to be remarkably [...]
Bookworm on Jun 02 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England, Health, Hillary Clinton, Medicine
Tweet There’s talk of Obama giving Hillary the green light to socialize American medicine if she’ll walk away from the primaries. Melanie Phillips gives us a good example of why the renewed specter of socialized medicine should worry us: To the Labour Party, the National Health Service is the talismanic proof of its own moral [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Health, Medicine
Tweet One of Obama’s (and Clinton’s) many sins is the desire to nationalize medicine, so that the government gets to decide who deserves treatment and who doesn’t. Britain, as always, serves as a useful horrible example of what can happen under such a system: A 61-year-old grandmother has been denied vital heart surgery for being [...]
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