July 30, 2012
My Friend Works For The National Health...
Watching the replay of that wretched paean to the National Health during the Olympics opening ceremonies made me quite bilious. Not one sentient creature on the face of the Blue Marble has an ounce of respect for that odious institution.
Having children performing somersaults of joy on their hospital beds when the NHS uses dehydration as a form of euthanasia is a fucking repellent thing for a supposedly civilized people.
By my abacus the National Health Service is the most murderous organization Western civilization has ever produced outside of the Nazi Party. It is completely corrupted, venal, insensitve, uncaring, and ineffectual. And those are only its passive traits. The active traits are not unlike Mengele's regime, except for the fact that Mengele's horrors were at least in the service of some perverse knowledge. All the NHS wants to do is kill the next patient as quickly as possible so that they might take tea, and collect their stipend.
The only good thing the NHS ever did was produce a jaundiced physician to supply John Lennon with some excellent psychotropic drugs. And even that led, inevitably, to Yoko Ono.
"Having children performing somersaults of joy on their hospital beds when the NHS uses dehydration as a form of euthanasia is a fucking repellent thing for a supposedly civilized people."
Now I have my Quote of the Day. Thanks, V-Man.
Posted by: Robert at July 31, 2012 12:21 AMRemember, most of the world though of Germany as civilised before WWII. We'll see how Formerly Great Britian comes out in twenty or thirty years.
Gerry N.
Posted by: Gerry N. at July 31, 2012 1:34 AMBut...but...but, it's freeeee, doncha know?
Posted by: Jim - PRS at July 31, 2012 3:44 AMMy personal favourite moment of the week was when Romney was in Jerusalem and got it into his head to praise Israel's health care system, apparently not knowing that it operated off of an individual mandate model. Oh, and that the four insurance plans offered are all tightly controlled by the government.
Now, Mitt had all kinds of facts and figures about GDP spending and health outcomes in Ye Holy Land, so this doesn't strike me at all as an unforced error.
I'm starting to think that he might be some breed of Fifth Columnist. Okay, that's not really true. I ALWAYS thought he was a Fifth Columnist.
Posted by: skippystalin at July 31, 2012 6:46 AMLast I checked, Israel wasn't a vast, expansive bloat of government toadies, but a tightly compact civilization surrounded by nations intent on their destruction. They stand uniquely apart from casual comparisons with our nova castrati excuse for management of the people's resources.
Vman, so glad you're still kicking it.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at July 31, 2012 7:29 AMJoan,
If one created an individual mandate in the state he governed, suggested that his party campaign on Wyden-Bennett (which contained an individual mandate,) and then went on to praise a foreign health care system with an individual mandate without being asked ... Well, reasonable people might begin to suspect that one doesn't have a huge problem with individual mandates.
Of course, I could also point out that Romney named Mike Levitt, who is consulting for the states on the creation of the insurance exchanges, as head of his transition team. But I'm feeling generous, so I won't.
Posted by: skippystalin at July 31, 2012 7:40 AMArbeit Macht Frei, or so they say.
Posted by: Casca at July 31, 2012 12:57 PMLast I checked, Israel wasn't a vast, expansive bloat of government toadies, but a tightly compact civilization surrounded by nations intent on their destruction. They stand uniquely apart from casual comparisons with our nova castrati excuse for management of the people's resources. Vman, so glad you're still kicking it.
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