British Health Care System Verging on Collapse
“A month of nights, a year of days
Octobers drifting into Mays
I set my sail as the tide comes in
Then I cast** my fate to the wind”
All’s superwell in God’s Heaven. ‘Tis indeed a wonderful world, especially when we can just let go because all the nasty irrelevancies are out of our way. Under those conditions, your health is everything, and just owning good health is the key to Eden . . . uh-oh those damn irrelevancies again . . . .
The love of Obamacare Czar Donald Berwich’s life may be near death and so he might need to find another lover. Berwick, who launches into rapture everytime he speaks of the British National Health System that Obamacare was modeled upon has gone so far as to say, “I just love the British health system,” and to talk of ‘her’ as a “seductress.” Unfortunately, the Brits are now talking about the potential for their National Health System to totally collapse. The Brit program, like Obamacare, has turned out to be everything a FOX News commentator named Glenn Beck said it was. Besides its numerous other faults discussed in detail at:
Obamacare has been openly called “redistributional” by Berwick on at least three separate occasions; and Berwick has said that “It’s not a question of ‘IF’ rationing takes place but of ‘HOW’ rationing takes place.” Since we’re talking about Obamacare being modelled upon the British example that would mean the biggest rationing would be for infants and children under three years of age; and for citizens over 60 years of age. From age 3 to age 60, the British system is probably not all that bad . . . well, then again . . . .
The British base their system on a value of a human life of $45,000 and getting more than $45,000 worth of care for a toddler or for a senior or for others in iffy medical straits is not in the cards usually. What exactly Obama and Berwick and the Progressive Left see to admire in the British system and in Obamacare really is a shocking concept.
A. First and foremost they presumably like that the first two Obamacare outlets set up in the country in New Mexico and Pennsylvania have set up abortion payments, (Sorry Bart Stupak, but Barack was just funning you when he promised abortions wouldn’t be funded!)
B. That $45,000 price tag that doesn’t amount to a “death panel” now does it. Oh, wait, the talk is that the price tag for Obamacare will be $150,000, well that’s a lot better, huh?
C. Perhaps it’s the rosy statistics on chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease and stroke? Britain’s cancer survival rate ranges between 40.2 percent and 48.1 percent for men and between 48 percent and 54.1 percent for women, compared with 66 percent for U.S. men and 63 percent for U.S. women. The story behind that rate differential in the British System would take several pages, it’s ugly. But suffice it to say that top cancer survival rates of 48.1% for men and 54.1% for women are abysmal.
D. About 6-7% of British patients are rich enough to pay for medical insurance and avoid needing to brave NHS, but choice of treatment is virtually impossible for the rest of the populace.
E. And, of course within the British model there are some “rogue doctors” who work privately outside the system – which is where those who can afford it go rather than risk their life within socialized medicine . . . so the poorest treatment is mostly foisted off on the poorest people – that’s OK, right?
Well, in any case, if the British National Health Care System goes under as it seems it might, that might really steam the 60% of Americans now already calling for the repeal of Obamacare . . . might even add a few more voices to the outcry . . . .
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** Cast Your Fate to the Wind lyrics by David Benoit was a very popular song but the instrumental was ultra-popular and had three or four revivals. Not sure who composed the melody. The rendition by bent-note artist Floyd Cramer of “The Last Date” fame is Rajjpuut’s favorite. When Ol' Rajjpuut gets stressed music like that or Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" usually do the trick.
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