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Yay Universal Healthcare!

Published by Daisy on March 7, 2010 in General Political Mockery. 19 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

According to the UK Daily Mail online, that whole socialized medicine thing is just plain awesome. And by awesome, I obviously mean sucktastic and not very healthy at all.

Here’s the gist of the story:

A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital.
Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink that he rang police to beg for their help. They arrived on the ward only to be told by doctors that everything was under control. The next day his mother Rita Cronin found him delirious and he died within hours. She said nurses had failed to give him vital drugs which controlled fluid levels in his body. ‘He was totally dependent on the nurses to help him and they totally betrayed him.’

Basically, the kid was dying of a brain tumor. He was thirsty. People get that way – especially after days of not being given freakin’ water. You know.

The death certificate listed the cause of death as a ‘water deficit’ and ‘hypernatraemia’….semantically correct phrases for dehydration.

This was a TEACHING HOSPITAL. And, 32 people were responsible for this kid’s care. THIRTY TWO. His death came a week after a report surfaced that shed light on “hundreds of deaths at Stafford Hospital revealed the appalling quality of care given by many of the nurses.”

His mother asked, “How could this happen in the 21st century?”

I ask that every time this stupid healthcare crap comes up. Probably not a coincidence.

This Is What Universal Healthcare Looks Like.

Published by Daisy on February 23, 2010 in Choppy McBotox (Nancy Pelosi) and General Political Mockery. 28 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

It looks like this dude:

In case you don’t know this dude, he’s Danny Williams, the ninth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He’s a public servant of Canada. A supporter of Canada and its politics. And by being a public servant of the country, he’s probably a big supporter of the whole Canadian healthcare system. You know.

Interesting thing, though. He just got back from Miami (one of those cities in the United States where right now, at least, there is no socialized medicine and all) “to have a minimally invasive” surgery for an ailment first detected nearly a year ago, based on the advice of his doctors.”

His statement about fleeing to the U.S. for decent, as opposed to sh*tty, universal Canadian healthcare:

“This was my heart, my choice and my health. I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics.”

Isn’t that convenient for him? I thought so, too, seeing as how he has gobs of money and can afford to fly himself to the United States for a “minimally-invasive” surgery at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in sunny Miami. Must be nice when everyone else in your country has to wait in line for such things, Mr. Hypocrite Man.

He went on to say that “his decision to go to the U.S. did not reflect any lack of faith in his own province’s health care system.”

“I have the utmost confidence in our own health care system in Newfoundland and Labrador, but we are just over half a million people,” he said.

Riiiiight. And if you believe that, I have this great pyramid scheme you may be interested in as well.

I’d just like to point out that this guy is no different than the Reids and Pelosis and Obamas who are shoving “universal” healthcare down your throat. Make no mistake, people – THEY WON’T FREAKIN’ USE IT, BECAUSE IT’LL SUCK. But guess what? You’ll have to – because you’re a stupid commoner lemming who really needs the big, smart government to make such choices for you.

Yay for all us stupid commoner lemmings and that whole “reformed” healthcare thing. GAWD.

Harry Reid’s Brand New, Totally Original Idea That He Had ALL BY HIMSELF

Published by Mockarena on December 14, 2009 in Really?. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Yes. I realize I’m on vacation in Mexico and I shouldn’t be posting anything but I couldn’t help it. I saw this, and had to post it. I love how politicians seem to completely forget that there’s such a thing as FILM AND VIDEO.

Ok. Back to drinking and lounging and general merriment. As you were.

Universal Healthcare Sucks

Published by Daisy on October 18, 2009 in General Political Mockery. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Well, that’s what healthcare WORKERS in the U.K. think, anyway.

Apparently, they’re “leapfrogging” the system, using taxpayer money to do it. I mean, the government-run care is good enough for the minions of society, but the workers? Heck no!

More than 3,000 staff, including doctors and nurses, have gone private at the taxpayers’ expense in the past three years because the queues at the clinics and hospitals where they work are too long.

Figures released under the Freedom of Information act show that NHS administrative staff, paramedics and ambulance drivers have also been given free private healthcare. This has covered physiotherapy, osteopathy, psychiatric care and counselling – all widely available on the NHS.

And the best part of all of this is the lame and downright insulting defense the goverment is using. In order to “serve” the people better, the doctors and nurses and other healthcare workers need to be served a higher quality of care.

Ummm. Alrighty then. Nice try.

Kind of sounds a lot like our fabulously hypocritical Congress – who has absolutely no intention of using the crappy care they so desperately want to force-feed us.

Yay universal health care! Someone please pass the Maalox.

Here’s A Great Idea! Let’s Trade Our Health Care For Something Like Britain’s…

Published by Daisy on August 27, 2009 in General Political Mockery. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

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Um, people think this is actually a good idea. After reading this article yesterday about bed shortages in maternity wards have forced about 4000 women to give birth in hospital corridors, “lifts, offices, and hospital toilets” (yes, you read that correctly), I was just filled with glee to read this article this morning about 1 million people who have been subjected to “‘neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel’ care under NHS.

The maternity wards “shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.” In just the past two years alone, here’s where women gave birth – compliments of the stellar government-run healthcare system:

  • 63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;
  • 117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;
  • 115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;
  • 399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.

Beyond the maternity ward issue, there’s this general neglect-thing going on, too. 

Here’s a lovely example: “Pamela Goddard, a piano teacher from Bletchingley, in Surrey, was 82 and suffering with cancer but was left in her own excrement and her condition deteriorated due to her bed sores.”

Aaaand another: “Florence Weston, from Sedgley in the West Midlands, died aged 85 and had to remain without food or water for several days as her hip operation was repeated cancelled.”

But hey everyone – even though 85% of us are insured and HAPPY with that insurance in this country, we should sacrifice quality care for the 15% that don’t.  And, oh yeah – pay a couple trillion bucks to do so.

YAY for NO COMMON SENSE!

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