Daily Blog Buzz: Hillary, Take Note!

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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:

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