Examples to ponder while Obama crafts his socialized healthcare plans
Disclaimer: I have an acquaintance within the French national health care insurance system. This is my source. What you're about to read is true.
the dissident frogman
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Socialized health care is just one step on the Road to Serfdom—though a dramatic one. And a deep dive down the Bureaucratic Twilight Zone of the Absurd. Take France for instance:
The much vaunted1 French “free”2, mandatory, state-run health care insurance may reimburse any patient’s second hearing aid if, and only if he is blind.
Get that? Socialistzed health care means that you will be allowed to hear only if you can’t see3. I mean, hey, you can’t have it all—there are other people waiting, you know. Selfish bastard.
And of course, the poor deaf and blind soul may get that if he first obtained the bureaucrats’ authorization to get said second hearing aid. We can’t have any sort of self-medication going on, can we?
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the dissident frogman
I own, built and run this place. In a previous life I was not French but sadly, I died.
"A socialized health care plan modeled after the French plan will help about 52% of Americans. They are both blind and deaf."
Heh. Reminds me of a Lovecraft short story. I think it was called "Deaf, dumb and blind".
"PS: Log-in would not work for me today."
Damn, sorry about that. I must investigate that issue, as you are the second one reporting trouble with the login in too short of a time span for this to be accidental. Bloody web software will be the end of me.
"And once government health care's in place the game's over: Socialized medicine redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in all the wrong ways, and, if you cross that bridge, it's all but impossible to go back."
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4164 - Proof
Proof Stockton, Callifornia, USA
It is well said that the only thing socialism is able to spread equitably is misery. This seems to be yet another sterling example.
We shall try to hold onto liberty for as long as we can here, Monsieur Frogman, but things look bleaker than they have in a long time!
4168 - DaToad
DaToad
A socialized health care plan modeled after the French plan will help about 52% of Americans. They are both blind and deaf.
PS: Log-in would not work for me today.
4169 - the dissident frogman
the dissident frogman France
Heh. Reminds me of a Lovecraft short story. I think it was called "Deaf, dumb and blind".
Damn, sorry about that. I must investigate that issue, as you are the second one reporting trouble with the login in too short of a time span for this to be accidental. Bloody web software will be the end of me.
4180 - Spiny Norman
Spiny Norman California
Mark Steyn:
"And once government health care's in place the game's over: Socialized medicine redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in all the wrong ways, and, if you cross that bridge, it's all but impossible to go back."