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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 is old [...]

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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 might [...]

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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 Staffordshire General focused [...]

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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 gets its [...]

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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 women are being forced to give [...]

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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 Service [...]

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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 [...]

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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 superiority.
Time and [...]

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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 too [...]

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