Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Don Parker nails both the costs and hypocrisy behind the mandate in the new health care bill that seniors be gently steered towards a cheap death. UPDATE: Thanks to Old Flyer for reminding me of this, which fits in so perfectly with the new plan: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE[/youtube] UPDATE II: A story
Continue readingI can just hear the wild screams of laughter, and the front page coverage, if a Republican president had said something this stupid (at about 45 seconds): Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Hey, I’d like to make a change to change, too. Hat
Continue readingTom Elia links to an utterly fatuous statement from a 25 year old Obama supporter (who nevertheless gets a bully pulpit in a WaPo blog), saying that killing the profit motive will have no effect whatsoever on pharmaceutical innovation. In the face of such stupidity, I have to drag out
Continue readingSteve Crowder looks at the Canadian health care system. Some of his experiences are similar to those in any busy city emergency room, such as a long, long wait for a low level problem. Others, most notably statements by nurses, make your eyes bug: Three years to get an appointment
Continue readingAnother chapter in the “lies, damn lies and statistics” is the repeated claim from proponents of European-style socialized medicine that the US has the highest infant mortality rate of any first world country. This is a scathing indictment, implicating American poverty, racism, prenatal and post-natal care. The only problem is
Continue readingOctober 2008: McCain finally looks poised to lead in the polls, the market collapses and cool, calm, collected, Ivy League educated Obama vaults forward to victory. April 2009: It starts to look as if both the American public and Congress may be getting leery about Obama’s proposal to nationalize healthcare
Continue readingAgain, Britain reminds us of the possible consequences of allowing the government to control health care. (See here and here.) As always, what amazes me about the Left is it’s never ending optimism about the government. Its members will cheerfully concede that the government pretty much bungles most of the
Continue readingDoctors don’t make decisions. The government does. (And yes, I acknowledge that this could have happened here with an HMO, but this story represents what’s in store if the whole country becomes one giant HMO.)
Continue readingYes, Minister! was a very, very funny British TV show from the 1980s, before Britain (and the BBC) went completely round the bend. There is no better argument for school choice and non-socialized medicine than this funny clip from that show: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLDb2V86Ei0&eurl=http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/[/youtube] Hat tip: IWF
Continue readingThere’s talk of Obama giving Hillary the green light to socialize American medicine if she’ll walk away from the primaries. Melanie Phillips gives us a good example of why the renewed specter of socialized medicine should worry us: To the Labour Party, the National Health Service is the talismanic proof
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