-By Warner Todd Huston
Last week England’s Yorkshire Post featured a few stories on the failure that is British nationalized healthcare. Among others, it featured one 54-year-old woman that had to wait 18 months to get an abscess taken from her mouth and a 74-year-old man that found he could not get the care for his heart condition that he needed because he was deemed too old to be worth the effort.
Once again, we have a perfect example of the sort of nationalized healthcare administered by government bean counters and bureaucrats (and NOT doctors) that will result here if we institute Obamacare.
Worse than the long wait lists, however, is the “old age lottery” that plagues the elderly in England’s nationalized healthcare system. It seems that the elderly are the last to get treatment because they are deemed less worthy of the costs of care.
So, a new plan has been conceived. The “free” care for the elderly will be “guaranteed” by a £25,000 up-front payment by patients to the government to assure them that they will receive timely healthcare.
Yes, the national plan that is paid for by patient’s taxes, taxes paid during their entire lives, the national plan that is supposed to cover everyone, will now need a hefty fee paid by the elderly in order to assure them that they will be afforded the care they’ve paid all their lives to access.
Such a deal, eh?
Folks, if you don’t think this is the sort of inequity that will befall America if we implement Obamacare… well, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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