Nut grafs:
When people want to demonize single payer systems, they always wind up going after rationing, and more often than you’d think with hip replacements…Please read the whole thing, as poster Aaron Carroll has something important to say about health costs.
It’s not true. They don’t deny hip replacements to the elderly (in Canada). But there’s more.
Do you know who gets most of the hip replacements in the United States? The elderly.
Do you know who pays for care for the elderly in the United States? Medicare.
Do you know what Medicare is? A single-payer system.
Then there's this takedown of rightwing scare tactics.
“Heart”
Private Sector
Hello, I’m the private sector.
Obamacare
And I’m Obamacare!
Private Sector
Obamacare, I have to tell you about the sweetest, bravest little girl I met. Her name’s Chloe, she’s eight years old, and she was born with a heart condition that has meant surgery after surgery just to keep her alive. She’s spent so much of her life in the hospital, but she is just the brightest, cheeriest girl you could imagine. She has this big stuffed bear she called “Mr. Bear,” and she takes it everywhere. They’re best friends! Oh, and here’s the best part. Her family just reached their lifetime cap on coverage, so I don’t have to pay their bills any more. They were getting pretty expensive!
Obamacare
Yeah, you can’t do that anymore.
Private Sector
Wait, what?
Read more at http://wonkette.com/532974/wonkette-special-investigative-report-the-lost-republican-obamacare-ads#qSyaIeqkudMrJFf9.99
And another epic failure of a "news" organization to find someone harmed by Obamacare. (Fox does good job, shoots Roger Ailes in foot, basically. Will wonders never cease?)
“Heart”
Private Sector
Hello, I’m the private sector.
Obamacare
And I’m Obamacare!
Private Sector
Obamacare, I have to tell you about the sweetest, bravest little girl I met. Her name’s Chloe, she’s eight years old, and she was born with a heart condition that has meant surgery after surgery just to keep her alive. She’s spent so much of her life in the hospital, but she is just the brightest, cheeriest girl you could imagine. She has this big stuffed bear she called “Mr. Bear,” and she takes it everywhere. They’re best friends! Oh, and here’s the best part. Her family just reached their lifetime cap on coverage, so I don’t have to pay their bills any more. They were getting pretty expensive!
Obamacare
Yeah, you can’t do that anymore.
Private Sector
Wait, what?
Read more at http://wonkette.com/532974/wonkette-special-investigative-report-the-lost-republican-obamacare-ads#qSyaIeqkudMrJFf9.99“Heart”
Private Sector
Hello, I’m the private sector.
Obamacare
And I’m Obamacare!
Private Sector
Obamacare, I have to tell you about the sweetest, bravest little girl I met. Her name’s Chloe, she’s eight years old, and she was born with a heart condition that has meant surgery after surgery just to keep her alive. She’s spent so much of her life in the hospital, but she is just the brightest, cheeriest girl you could imagine. She has this big stuffed bear she called “Mr. Bear,” and she takes it everywhere. They’re best friends! Oh, and here’s the best part. Her family just reached their lifetime cap on coverage, so I don’t have to pay their bills any more. They were getting pretty expensive!
Obamacare
Yeah, you can’t do that anymore.
Private Sector
Wait, what?
Read more at http://wonkette.com/532974/wonkette-special-investigative-report-the-lost-republican-obamacare-ads#qSyaIeqkudMrJFf9.99
“Heart”
Private Sector
Hello, I’m the private sector.
Obamacare
And I’m Obamacare!
Private Sector
Obamacare, I have to tell you about the sweetest, bravest little girl I met. Her name’s Chloe, she’s eight years old, and she was born with a heart condition that has meant surgery after surgery just to keep her alive. She’s spent so much of her life in the hospital, but she is just the brightest, cheeriest girl you could imagine. She has this big stuffed bear she called “Mr. Bear,” and she takes it everywhere. They’re best friends! Oh, and here’s the best part. Her family just reached their lifetime cap on coverage, so I don’t have to pay their bills any more. They were getting pretty expensive!
Obamacare
Yeah, you can’t do that anymore.
Private Sector
Wait, what?
Read more at http://wonkette.com/532974/wonkette-special-investigative-report-the-lost-republican-obamacare-ads#qSyaIeqkudMrJFf9.99
Private Sector
Hello, I’m the private sector.
Obamacare
And I’m Obamacare!
Private Sector
Obamacare, I have to tell you about the sweetest, bravest little girl I met. Her name’s Chloe, she’s eight years old, and she was born with a heart condition that has meant surgery after surgery just to keep her alive. She’s spent so much of her life in the hospital, but she is just the brightest, cheeriest girl you could imagine. She has this big stuffed bear she called “Mr. Bear,” and she takes it everywhere. They’re best friends! Oh, and here’s the best part. Her family just reached their lifetime cap on coverage, so I don’t have to pay their bills any more. They were getting pretty expensive!
Obamacare
Yeah, you can’t do that anymore.
Private Sector
Wait, what?
Read more at http://wonkette.com/532974/wonkette-special-investigative-report-the-lost-republican-obamacare-ads#qSyaIeqkudMrJFf9.99
“Heart”
Private Sector
Hello, I’m the private sector.
Obamacare
And I’m Obamacare!
Private Sector
Obamacare, I have to tell you about the sweetest, bravest little girl I met. Her name’s Chloe, she’s eight years old, and she was born with a heart condition that has meant surgery after surgery just to keep her alive. She’s spent so much of her life in the hospital, but she is just the brightest, cheeriest girl you could imagine. She has this big stuffed bear she called “Mr. Bear,” and she takes it everywhere. They’re best friends! Oh, and here’s the best part. Her family just reached their lifetime cap on coverage, so I don’t have to pay their bills any more. They were getting pretty expensive!
Obamacare
Yeah, you can’t do that anymore.
Private Sector
Wait, what?
Read more at http://wonkette.com/532974/wonkette-special-investigative-report-the-lost-republican-obamacare-ads#qSyaIeqkudMrJFf9.99
Google [england nhs care rationing].
ReplyDeleteReality bites.
If you skip down past he utterly unreliable Telegraph and the dubious Sky News, you get this:
ReplyDelete"This was not an attack on NICE, which is the envy of health systems across the world as it has brought a solid evidence base to health care spending, but rather an acknowledgement that the NHS cannot keep up with expectations.
"The cost of providing health services is growing - by about 3% a year because of factors like the ageing population, cost of new drugs and lifestyle issues like obesity."
Just like the American rationing, but fair.
Reality bites indeed.