Showing how crazy the entire health care reform debate has become, the past few days have seen embarrassments pile up at the usually respected newspaper Investor’s Business Daily. About a week ago, the paper decried Obama’s health care reform plan, apparently confusing it with the British health care system. They bemoaned English patients’ “rationed care,” and ended this way: “People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”
The problem, of course, is that Stephen Hawking is British. And he’s lived in Britain his whole life. Not only that, he’s gotten great care from the evil Brit system, at least according to Hawking himself. Yesterday, the eminent man of science tore into the Investor’s Business Daily, saying, “I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS (National Health Service). I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.” Pause here for a big, fat “Oops!”
This article appears in Aug 11-18, 2009.
No, The dumbing of the american people, The sky is falling.