health care summit
on 02/25/2010 at 09:59 PM
And you expected what from him?
A summit is supposed to be a meeting of the Minds. From what I read and saw today it was a meeting of the Mindless.Or is that Clueless?
You decide.Whata great place to toss in this bit from the folks who know all about health care:
The London Times reports on England’s latest medical scandal:
Patients were routinely neglected or left “sobbing and humiliated” by staff at an NHS trust where at least 400 deaths have been linked to appalling care.
An independent inquiry found that managers at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust stopped providing safe care because they were preoccupied with government targets and cutting costs. ...
Staff shortages at Stafford Hospital meant that patients went unwashed for weeks, were left without food or drink and were even unable to get to the lavatory. Some lay in soiled sheets that relatives had to take home to wash, others developed infections or had falls, occasionally fatal. Many staff did their best but the attitude of some nurses “left a lot to be desired”.
The report, which follows reviews by the Care Quality Commission and the Department of Health, said that “unimaginable” suffering had been caused.WELL THEN,FREE or CHEAP HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYONE here in the USA ,RIGHT GANG!!
Ive become a posting whore,STOP ME DREW!
But before that happens, This may be our future Brave New America:Imagine, if you will, that you are living in a changed America, or in President Obama’s words, an America that begged “re-making.” In this now-changed America, hope is in big government and her closest ally, big science.
Now imagine that you and your spouse give birth to a child in this brave, new America, in a hospital linked by law to the federal citizens database. Immediately upon your child’s birth, a hospital clerk assigns your newborn with a “Unique Health Identifier” (UHI), a specially coded number, which is then put into a national electronic database, along with your newborn’s fingerprints and any other identifiers the bureaucrats in D.C. have demanded.
Sex. Weight. Length. Race. APGAR score. Health appraisal at birth, including any disfigurements or handicaps, identifying traits or birthmarks, and DNA markers. Information about the child’s parents, such as names, age, race, number of prior pregnancies, number of prior births, number of prior abortions, education attained, occupations, finger prints and criminal records, if any, are also stored. Almost anything can be included in the database for future government needs, whatever those might be.
Imagine that all constitutional safeguards for an individual’s privacy are deemed to have been complied with, when compiling this database, because healthcare is an interstate activity that the Feds can regulate and government access to the information improves the “general welfare.” Imagine that it is even required that your newborn, before leaving the hospital, be fitted with a surgically implanted microchip, the way babies are now, in many states, required to be vaccinated and blood-typed. The implanted microchip can then be accessed with a scanner by anyone who has a scanning device, with or without parental consent.
If you want to read more its at Big Government,Article by Kyle-Anne Shiver.Interesting choice of words there, Mr. Wehner: I guess we DO have an Imperious Leader! Haven’t referenced the original series in quite some time.
I can recognize a steaming cow pat when I step in one.
Drew, most of us learned to recognize BEFORE stepping in it. I seem to recall a Steve Martin movie where his (adopted) father taught him the difference between sh*t and shinola.
FYI. See ‘The Jerk’ starring Steve Martin for more instruction.
That is all.
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