I received an email from a reader named Lisa, and it really doesn’t need any further elaboration:
All the Dems in Congress are pushing for the public option in the health care reform bill, but have you seen what the UK’s nationalized health care looks like by the numbers? It’s scary.
18 weeks – British government’s goal to cut wait times to.
9,000 – British patients are denied kidney dialysis
15,000 – British patients who are refused coverage for chemotherapy
17,000 – Patients denied heart surgery
100,000 – canceled operations every year because of shortage of doctors
140,000 – Residents in Northern Ireland on a waiting list waiting for care right now
Related: I received an email from reader Nathan, which also speaks for itself.
Funny. Two months ago, the President invited 150 hand-picked doctors to the White House for a photo-op, and said “Nobody has more credibility with the American people on this than you do.”
Fast forward to today, and the California Medical Association (35,000 members strong) is the latest state doctors assn to officially oppose the Senate health care reform bill.
Mr. President, do our doctors still have “more credibility” than anyone?
Good question.
Update: Guess who denies more claims – evil insurance companies or Medicare? If you guessed Medicare, you’d be right!
I am looking for an alternative to AARP, which has found a home in the White House.
There is a lot of googling for this, apparently, and I found an August entry that you had for the American Seniors Association, but your link was bad or broken.
http://www.americanseniors.org/
I do not know that much about them, but it looks like a case of anything ‘better than..’.
Thank you.
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Yeah, this is the direction I want to go. It’s really egregious that our leaders want to usurp the voters. I’m counting the days to the next cycle.
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My AARP renewal cards came in the mail about a month ago. They are now at the city dump. Apparently there are many more AARP cards sharing the same fate as mine these days.
The AARP is willing to let the government cut funding and services to seniors so they can sell more supplemental insurance policies.
Heres an idea…why dont they fight for less cuts, more services and still sell supplemental insurance policies?
I don’t know. It makes sense to me.
AARP…Americans Against Retired People
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This fraudulent organization expects hundreds of millions from the fed. gov’t. and doesn’t care if everyone quits their memberships.
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Beware?
More like: “Be afraid, very afraid.”
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