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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80762)	3/11/2010 12:23:10 PM
From: TideGlider	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

People don't die from having no insurance. HUGE LIE!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80762)	3/11/2010 10:20:00 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

Nonsense...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80762)	3/17/2010 8:00:23 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

How many will Obamacare kill? A few weeks ago, my post “Health care to die for” pointed out that while a federal government-funded study by a pro-Obamacare group at Harvard said 45,000 people die each year due to a lack of health insurance, the Tories contend that 50,000 people die in Britain each year because of government health insurance. Adjusted for population and you would have 250,000 people dying in teh United States under the NHS. Now I believe the Tories about as much as I believe Harvard. What did Disraeli say about lies, damned lies and statistics? But some statistics are more trustworthy than others. The Rarer Cancers Forum reviewed the British rationing of medications (through a board that is cynically acronymed “NICE”) and found that 20,000 people died early because NICE was too cheap to give them proper treatment. From the London Daily Mail: “Treatments used widely in the U.S. and Europe have been rejected on grounds of cost-effectiveness, yet patients and their loved ones have seen the NHS waste astronomical sums. Last week it emerged that £21billion — a fifth of the entire annual budget — was spent on failed schemes to tackle inequality.” And Americans think their insurance companies are heartless. blogs.dailymail.com