Daily Blog Buzz: Hillary, Take Note!

In case you need more evidence that a
socialized
government-funded health care system is a bad idea, London’s Daily Mail reported yesterday:

Record numbers of Britons are traveling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS – with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year. And by the end of the decade 200,000 “health tourists” will fly as far as Malaysia and South Africa for major surgery to avoid long waiting lists and the rising threat of superbugs, according to a new report… India is the most popular destination for surgery, followed by Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland and Spain. But dozens more countries are attracting health tourists.

That’s funny. Didn’t Michael Moore promote Britain’s NHS as a top-notch system in his movie Sicko? Minette Marrin at London’s Sunday Times says:

Unfortunately Sicko is a dishonest film. That is not only my opinion. It is the opinion of Professor Lord Robert Winston, the consultant and advocate of the NHS. When asked on BBC Radio 4 whether he recognised the NHS as portrayed in this film, Winston replied: “No, I didn’t. Most of it was filmed at my hospital [the Hammersmith in west London], which is a very good hospital but doesn’t represent what the NHS is like.”… While there are good doctors and nurses and treatments in the NHS, there is so much that is inadequate or bad that it is dishonest to represent it as the envy of the world and a perfect blueprint for national healthcare. It isn’t.

Is this what we want? Inefficient, government-controlled health care that will force Americans to fly halfway around the world for life-saving surgeries? This is scary news, especially since leading Democratic presidential contenders are all for universal health care. Ed at Captain’s Quarters notes, “The longer trips to India and Malaysia indicate a measure of desperation.” Clearly, NHS is NOT working, and a similar system in the United States likely wouldn’t work either. Blue Crab Boulevard agrees, adding, “What’s interesting here is that people are avoiding the ‘free’ health care if they can afford it. That speaks volumes about the socialized medical system in Briton – none of it good…Meanwhile, the left in this country continues to push for socialized medicine.” John Hawkins at Right Wing News tells us this could be our future, too: “Don’t you look forward to the day when you have to fly to India or Hungary because you’re ‘simply frightened of going’ to a Hillary hospital? Of course, they’ll assure you that won’t happen.” Macsmind adds that the “backlog on critical medical care especially in the wait for new organs such as heart, kidney, liver” will only increase if the country turns to socialized medicine. More from the Daily Telegraph and Don Surber. And you wonder why Hillary was voted “scariest Halloween costume” among all the presidential candidates.

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