Anyone who complains about European-style universal health care is clearly a racist. To find out if you are a racist, take the following test.
A) Does this news story bother you?
A leading UK hospital has defended its practice of using organs donated by smokers after the death of a soldier who received the cancerous lungs of a heavy smoker.
Corporal Matthew Millington, 31, died at his home in 2008, less than a year after receiving a transplant that was supposed to save his life at Papworth Hospital — the UK’s largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital, in Cambridgeshire, east England.
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Less than a year later, doctors discovered a tumor in the new lungs. Despite radiotherapy, Millington died on February 8, 2008, at his family home near Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire.The inquest found a radiographer failed to highlight the growth of a cancerous tumor on the donor lungs.
Tests found that he had received the lungs of a donor who smoked up to 50 cigarettes a day, the inquest at North Staffordshire coroner’s court heard.
If your response to this story was anything to the right of “Fox News is evil and should be barred from the airwaves,” then you are a racist and you should report to the nearest ObamaCare Clinic for immediate organ extraction. For the children.
11 Responses to “Here. Have some cancer.”
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I don’t get it. I really don’t get it. I’ve been doing so much reading over the past few months, both books and newspapers, and from what I can tell, the European social welfare system cannot last another 50 years. Personally I would be surprised if it lasts another 30, and I expect the serious collapses to start in about 15-20. None of the articles that support the social health care systems say anything about their long-term sustainability, they’re just happy they get free health care. All articles that make any attempt at a serious look at the system mention concerns about falling budgets and rising costs, and all the seriously critical ones complain about waiting lists and rationing of care, and cite horror stories to prove it. Many of the statistics touted by people in favor of a European-type system in the US are misleading, exaggerated, or outright lies. Not only that, but both Europe and Canada are repopulating at significantly below replacement level (the EU is at 1.5 children/woman, Canada is at 1.6; replacement level is 2.1), meaning that the aging of the population and shrinking of the workforce is going to start *really* reducing budgets within the next 10-20 years. It’s not sustainable. It is simply not sustainable, yet they tout it as the moral ideal, and there are many people in this country trying to drag us down Europe’s path. And as you said, they are doing it in the name of our children, the people who will get stuck with the bills… argh!
So how is this worse than getting no lung replacement because you are uninsured? Of course this is a horror story. Continue to tell yourselves that other countries systems will collapse. America is by far the largest debtor nation in the world….I wonder whose system will collapse first?
The only statistics that Americans should be looking at are from the CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Life expectancy…78.11 years…not bad but ranking 50th in the world.
And 3 years of life expectancy worse than countries like Canada, France, Japan (4 years)2years less than Sweden, Italy,ISRAEL, Switzerland etc.
That is all you really need to know. American health care is among the best and the worst the world has to offer. The question for Americans is do they want to become a nation of castes where the lower castes are not much more than beggars and animals to them ala India where the rich and powerful get what they need and live off the backs of the poor? There are and always will be a lower working class. You always have rich and poor even in America the land of opportunity. Do you leave behind the poor out of fear and hatred or are you courageous and make your country strong from within? It will be interesting to watch. I hope you are courageous.
Bri? Socialists don’t give a crap about people, long or short term. All they care about is The System, whatever label they use for it. People are a problem, a nuisance to be eliminated, mouths to feed, just another back to be clothed and housed. Pretty much the way Democrats see the world. Seeing a trend there?
I saw an article on this at BBC, and the tenor of it was that this was the patient’s fault. The writer didn’t come right out and say that, it was certainly the impression it left on me. And NHS has flatly denied it was their fault, as noted above, while the X-ray tech says they were not TOLD to look for cancer.
I agree with Brianna, AARRGGHHHH!!!!!!!
> Life expectancy…78.11 years…not bad but ranking 50th in the world.
Actaully… we’re prety much #1 when it comes to life expectancy based on the health care system. Once cannot take one simplistic set of stats and say “that tells the tale” when there is more to the story. And to read more to the story, see this:
http://up-ship.com/blog/blog/?p=3507
In terms of both general non-trauma life expectancy *and* five-year lung cancer survival rates, the US come sout on top.
> I hope you are courageous.
I hope Americans are courageous enough to reject the politics of fear and lies that is being spouted by the socialists. We have *the* best health care system in the world. It just costs too much.
He would have died without the lungs – so he got 1 extra year of life courtesy of the NHS.
And he got 20 years *less* life because they gave him shitty lungs that they didn’t bother to examine adequately.
“The inquest found a radiographer failed to highlight the growth of a cancerous tumor on the donor lungs.”
Don, the statistics I cited WERE from the CIA World Factbook, I’ve been looking at the CIA world factbook all week. And all the countries you cited as ideals were the exact same countries that are repopulating at below replacement level (Japan is actually 1.2), the countries that are purchasing temporary gains in the statistics on the backs of their childrens’ futures.
Our health care needs reform. Nobody denies that. But the systems of Europe, Canada and Japan are NOT the answer.
Also, if you go into the economic section of the CIA world factbook, you’ll see that many of the countries you cited are also steeped in debt, some of them worse than the US. Japan takes the cake at 173% of GDP but just because Sweden’s doing better than the US doesn’t make 37% of GDP something to brag about. Of course, what is going to happen to the US in a couple of decades won’t be pretty either (we’re at 60%, which is nothing to sneeze at), but if the government’s going to be having serious economic problems in a couple of decades, then I say that the less services we have tied up in government when that happens, the better.
So we’re doing health insurance reup at work this week. Thanks to the Left gunning for health insurance providers my premium is going from five bucks a month to fifty bucks a month. On top of that my taxes will go up as the new Democratic Party’s Buy-Us-Some-Low-Income-Voters boondoggle AKA “Healthcare Reform” kicks in. Thanks for all the goddamn “Change” Bambi! Then we rollout PeloSSi’s VAT tax idea. . .I can hardly fucking wait.
(Scott; review blog enteries… Did I miss something or did you already EXPLAIN why “It’s for the Children” is and should be so funny? Out of context some folks might think you are SERIOUS about it :o)
I don’t suppose anyone has been paying attention to the rise in general health care costs to insurance providers because they are no longer able to justify denial of service for little things like “life-saving” equipment and supplies? Or denying physical therapy treatments to those who suffer from chronic pain or crippling syndroms such as fibromialgai? Because mandating the doctor to ‘medicate’ rather than trying to help eleviate the issue is in the long term cheaper for insurance, but worse for the patient?
(Medicate until semi-comotose, force into sedentary life style, increase number and severity of health issues and complications and within [estimated] 10 years the company will no longer have to pay anything for the now deceased paitent. Better than ‘die-faster’ I suppose)
Randy
> Did I miss something or did you already EXPLAIN why “It’s for the Children” is and should be so funny?
There’s nothing at all funny about it. Why do you hate the children?