Yesterday we noted an embarrassing mistake by the Investor’s Business Daily. They criticized the British health care system by opining that 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 kicker being that Hawking is British and says his treatments, courtesy of the NHS, have been wonderful and, in fact, saved his life.
Today, there’s a great, true story from an American living in Paris who offers an illuminating look at the reality of “government-run medicine” in a “socialist hell hole.” Jane B. posted her story on the Talking Points Memo web site. Her post is well worth reading in its entirety. The short version is that Jane was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and she’s writing not long after having received confirmation from France’s evil “death panel” that, although she is an American citizen, 100 percent of her treatment for breast cancer will be covered. Let me say that again: Although she is an American citizen, 100 percent of her treatment for breast cancer will be covered by the French government. That, dear readers, is the reality of a well-run national health care system. Did I say Jane B.’s story is “illuminating”? Hell, for Americans who are used to fighting their insurance companies for every little thing, her story is the equivalent of looking into the workings of a parallel universe. The truth, though, is that Jane B.’s health care experience, with some variations, is the kind of thing people in, oh, say, every other modern country on earth, take for granted. For real. Think about it. While you and I are being screwed every which way from Sunday by health insurers, others around the world don’t have to sweat it, thanks to the evils of “socialism.” Bottom line: The scare tactics and bogeyman fantasies you’re hearing from the deluded stooges of the insurance industry who are currently yelling their lungs out at town hall meetings are — not to put too fine a point on it — bullshit, plain and simple.
This article appears in Aug 11-18, 2009.
Um, Frank, if you’re the one rebutting Grooms’ blog, shouldn’t YOU be the one to look up the info about 70-year-old illegals?
As for French treatment of the aged in general, maybe if you had acually read the young lady’s post, you would have seen that she explains the “death panel’s” criteria (as in, age is not considered at all).
I’m starting to wonder if you shouldn’t take that poster’s advice who said you need to see a shrink. No one who’s even close to normal spends as much time as you do obsessing over everything written in a particular publication.
A word to the wise (i.e., readers besides Griffin): Griffin has made it clear how socially and politically backward he is. He likes foreign women because they are “more submissive in public. He quit riding the bus because he “was tired of Afro Sheen.” And he thinks it’s still OK to make fun of gays and lesbians. In other words, he has all the symptoms of neanderthal dickhead’s disease.
Frank, you need to take remedial English composition (if you ever took it to begin with, which seems more doubtful every time you post). Let me explain: I wasn’t trying to answer your question — note where I said YOU should look it up since you’re the one who thought it might be relevant. You see there where I wrote “As for French treatment of the aged in general”? The “as for,” coming after saying that you should look up your own answer, means that I’m offering a partial answer (that’s what the “in general” indicates). You can’t hide your narrow-mindedness and tunnel visioned view of the world by the kind of bullshit bravado you display at every turn, asswipe. You’re not worth the trouble it takes to explain this, but you’re such a laughable jackass, I enjoyed showing you up for the half-literate dickhead you are.
And I repeat (and no, this isn’t out of context, this is how ass-backward this fool is: Griffin has made it clear how socially and politically backward he is. He likes foreign women because they are “more submissive in public. He quit riding the bus because he “was tired of Afro Sheen.” And he thinks it’s still OK to make fun of gays and lesbians. In other words, he has all the symptoms of neanderthal dickhead’s disease.
Thank you, Jay Patrick, for your expert destruction of Frank and his typically unthinking right wing negativity. Frank had to really scramble to find something to say in regards to this uplifting and wonderful post, and your takedown of him after the fact left him even more flailing, befuddled and defensive than usual. Bravo, sir.
I am the whore that took him around the world! Guess What? That
little limp dick piker still owes me money!