June 24th, 2009 by drs
#tcot #tlot I ran across this on the web tonight. Lots of good information, so I thought I would post it.
A Guide to the President’s Health Care Infomercial
Key sections of the guide with bullet points and links out to supporting documents:
- A government takeover of health care will drive up health care costs.
- Millions of Americans will lose their current health care coverage.
- Millions of Americans will no longer be able to choose their doctor.
- The government plan will be the only plan.
- A government takeover will lead to longer waits, lower quality, and rationed care.
- A government takeover of health care will destroy millions of American jobs.
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April 8th, 2009 by drs
With all the recent talk in the US about government universal health care, it is interesting to look at a socialized system (Britain) vs a free market system (Singapore).
What do Americans want? Do they know what options are available?
Here’s a excerpt from the article Health at www.Progressive-Vision.org
PROGRESSIVE vision is an independent think-tank, campaigning for new and liberal solutions to the problems facing British and European society…
A recent report published in the Lancet, showed that Britain has one of the worst five-year cancer survival rates in Europe and certainly well behind the best in the study, the United States. England has a female cancer survival rate of only 52.7 per cent, compared with 62.9 per cent for the United States or 61.8 per cent for Iceland. Britain performed poorer than former communist countries such as Slovenia, not to mention Spain and Malta. For males, a similar story is told, with England having a survival rate of only 44.8 per cent compared with the United States at 66.3 per cent. Again, below Spain, Ireland and Italy.
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November 6th, 2008 by drs
I’m sure many people have not heard this. The socialization of medicine has been a great concern for decades. I became aware of government and politics listening to my parents ( a MD and a nurse) discuss this topic in the early sixties.
(From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association)
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