Health Care -- Lies, more lies and DAMN lies.
C-Span will not get its wish. Obama lied at least 8 times about open door discussions and no backroom dealing relating to our healthcare "debate." As an aside ... doesn't debate imply that there might be two or more opposed sides engaged in some sort of give and take of ideas? And I don't mean, Harry Reid debating with Nancy Pelosi how best to pay for the unmentionable ... who to screw first or best.
An Op-Ed in the Journal opens ones eyes ... The U.S. is ranked 37th in the world in overall performance by the WHO. The who? WHO? An anti-american leftist multi-national redistribution institution? Yes that one.
How does WHO get to 37th? Because of a SUBJECTIVE adjustment (just like those subjective temperature adjustments to calculate global warming) that reflects -- in the judgment of WHO officers -- how well a country COULD HAVE DONE in relation to its resources. You can bet that a bunch of bureaucrats will always point to the capitalist model and scream inefficiencies ... and laud places like Greece and Cuba.
IT so happens that the U.S. has the shortest waiting time for non-emergency surgery in the world. England -- an Obama model of universal care -- has one of the longest (including tens of dozens of 3rd world countries). WHO does rank the U.S. as #1 (of 191 countries) for "responsiveness to the needs and choices of the individual patient." Isn't that exactly what we are trying to achieve for our citizens? And I could care less about the citizens of other countries -- not my problem, I don't pay their taxes, and they should not sponge off of my taxes. And this is the system we want to destroy?
Greece, ranked #14 by WHO, had a one year survival rate of 50% for heart transplant patients compared to the U.S.'s 94%. The 5 year rate was 34% and 90%, respectively. So ... the head of the Baylor Uni., program in Dallas went back to his native Greece and brought their rates nearly to U.S. levels. That education and know-how is AMERICAN. If we go to the socialist medical system, we will see that fall to old Greek levels quickly -- innovation will be lost and incentive squashed. American have received more Nobel (not that this really means anything for "peace") prizes for medicine that the rest of the world combined. Innovation happens here. Want to change that? What for?
The U.S ranks first or second in the world in transplants (meaing the people get to live) for: kidneys, liver, hearts and replacements of knees, heart by-passes (obesity, anyone?), stents, etc. The list goes on.
In Canada -- wonderful system -- 1 million out of 35 million are current waiting for surgery and another million waiting even to see a specialist.
Instead of changing this system, lets make it more affordable by preventing the oligopolies created by our inability to shop for insurance over state lines. Let's stifle the lotto created by lawsuits -- tort reform now -- and if we have to, create a matching system for those with pre-existing conditions. But lets not screw with this, the best medical system in the world.
An Op-Ed in the Journal opens ones eyes ... The U.S. is ranked 37th in the world in overall performance by the WHO. The who? WHO? An anti-american leftist multi-national redistribution institution? Yes that one.
How does WHO get to 37th? Because of a SUBJECTIVE adjustment (just like those subjective temperature adjustments to calculate global warming) that reflects -- in the judgment of WHO officers -- how well a country COULD HAVE DONE in relation to its resources. You can bet that a bunch of bureaucrats will always point to the capitalist model and scream inefficiencies ... and laud places like Greece and Cuba.
IT so happens that the U.S. has the shortest waiting time for non-emergency surgery in the world. England -- an Obama model of universal care -- has one of the longest (including tens of dozens of 3rd world countries). WHO does rank the U.S. as #1 (of 191 countries) for "responsiveness to the needs and choices of the individual patient." Isn't that exactly what we are trying to achieve for our citizens? And I could care less about the citizens of other countries -- not my problem, I don't pay their taxes, and they should not sponge off of my taxes. And this is the system we want to destroy?
Greece, ranked #14 by WHO, had a one year survival rate of 50% for heart transplant patients compared to the U.S.'s 94%. The 5 year rate was 34% and 90%, respectively. So ... the head of the Baylor Uni., program in Dallas went back to his native Greece and brought their rates nearly to U.S. levels. That education and know-how is AMERICAN. If we go to the socialist medical system, we will see that fall to old Greek levels quickly -- innovation will be lost and incentive squashed. American have received more Nobel (not that this really means anything for "peace") prizes for medicine that the rest of the world combined. Innovation happens here. Want to change that? What for?
The U.S ranks first or second in the world in transplants (meaing the people get to live) for: kidneys, liver, hearts and replacements of knees, heart by-passes (obesity, anyone?), stents, etc. The list goes on.
In Canada -- wonderful system -- 1 million out of 35 million are current waiting for surgery and another million waiting even to see a specialist.
Instead of changing this system, lets make it more affordable by preventing the oligopolies created by our inability to shop for insurance over state lines. Let's stifle the lotto created by lawsuits -- tort reform now -- and if we have to, create a matching system for those with pre-existing conditions. But lets not screw with this, the best medical system in the world.
Labels: Obama care medical reform.
posted by Zaphod at Friday, January 08, 2010
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