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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (18651)	9/9/2009 2:48:25 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

that makes perfect sense. who wants to listen to an hate whitey marxist POS ?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (18651)	9/10/2009 11:02:52 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Single Payer: In Britain, where the public option is about all most patients get, a newborn has died because national guidelines recommend that the baby not be treated. Yet again, government care produces tragedy. The mother, Sarah Capewell, reportedly begged doctors to save the baby, who was born 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy. But guidelines used by Britain's National Health Service say that babies born fewer than 22 weeks into a pregnancy should not be treated. The doctors told her to consider her early labor a miscarriage, not a birth, even though, according to Capewell, the boy, whom she named Jayden, was breathing, had a heartbeat and lived for nearly two hours without medical support. This part of Britain's government health care system proved to be deadly. The don't-treat guidelines were created by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which, in this case, served as a death panel. Victims of the British system, such as Capewell and Jayden, have little say-so over their health care. This leaves most of the country under the care of the NHS. And that, too often, is not a safe or healthy place to be. That's not to say that treatment is dispensed by medieval barbers. But care in Britain is marked by cruel waiting lists, lethal bureaucratic interference and Third World conditions. If a government takes over individuals' duty to care for themselves, it had better provide top-flight treatment. The record, though, shows in a deeply painful way that the state can't deliver.