Still wondering why we are resisting socialized medicine?
We are resisting it because it does have a tendency to kill people. Over the last few weeks, we have chronicled the NHS in the UK, and its record on killing British citizens. Here is the latest installment, courtesy of the Daily Mail.
Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly early after being denied cancer drugs on the NHS, it was revealed yesterday.
The rationing body NICE has failed to keep a promise to make more life-extending drugs available.
Treatments used widely in the U.S. and Europe have been rejected on grounds of cost-effectiveness, yet patients and their loved ones have seen the NHS waste astronomical sums.
Last week it emerged that £21billion – a fifth of the entire annual budget – was spent on failed schemes to tackle inequality.
NICE, the National Institute of health and Clinical Excellence, promised a year ago to make it easier for drugs for rarer cancers to be approved.
But since then four drugs which could have benefited 16,000 people have been turned down outright and a further six which could have helped 4,000 more have been provisionally rejected.
So 20,000 Brits have died, and our own “progressives” would love to have a similar system here.
Now, the left and Congressman Grayson would say the 40,000 Americans die each year from the lack of insurance coverage. Now let’s do some math…
UK population = Approximately 60 million.
US population = Approximately 300 million
Percentage of Americans (allegedly) dying because of lack of coverage = %.013
Percentage of Brits killed by the NHS = %.033
Now consider this, the 20,000 are JUST cancer victims that the NICE believes are not “cost effective” to treat. Again, this is only for one set of diseases! As we have chronicled here in the past, the NHS kills many more people than just cancer victims.
Representative Grayson made some headlines last summer by suggesting that the Republicans want people to “die quickly.” Now I see the reverse. The Democrats want to kill you themselves! Hyperbole is fun, isn’t it?
How ya likin’ that “change?”
I can no longer cover this topic without a ton of sarcasm. It keeps my brain from exploding. If you’d like a great serious post about the current state of ObamaCare, check out LD’s post at Political Realities.
Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
But there are no death panels! Gibbs said so… Unless you count the biggest death panel of all, Obama, Emanuel, Reid and Pelosi.
Yeah, that’s right! They are the “trinity of death?”
Hey, sarcasm is good for the soul. Easy way of letting off steam. I get to listening to the news in the mornings and I want to bang my head on the steering wheel, it is so frustrating. I was listening to NPR again this morning and their attitude about the House “deeming” the bill to pass is very cavalier. They act like they have no clue.
Thanks for the link, Matt.
I’ll have to tell you my NPR story one day. It’s priceless.