23-08-2009, 03:40 AM
At least something amusing has come out of the faux "debate" that is being staged to convince 'Merkins that good ol' Obama is really fighting for health care reform.
It's this gem. Sometimes Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them make me giggle.
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/25924
The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare
Posted by Mehret Tesfaye | August 22nd, 2009 at 3:09 pm |
"As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public furor has featured increasingly overheated claims about everything from so-called "death panels" to the supposed prowess of America's homegrown medicine. Many of the most wildly inaccurate statements have been directed abroad — sometimes at the United States' closest allies, such as Britain and Canada, and often at the best health-care systems in the world.
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The lie: Stephen Hawking (who has Lou Gehrig's disease)...would not receive treatment in Britain, which has a government-run health-care system.
The liars: An editorial in Investor's Business Daily on July 31 claimed: "People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service [NHS] would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."
...
this is nonsense.
Hawking, who is British, receives intensive treatment for his degenerative motor neuron disease at a local Cambridge hospital. Upon hearing the rumors of his non-treatment, the prizewinning theoretical physicist told The Guardian, "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."
It's this gem. Sometimes Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them make me giggle.
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/25924
The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare
Posted by Mehret Tesfaye | August 22nd, 2009 at 3:09 pm |
"As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public furor has featured increasingly overheated claims about everything from so-called "death panels" to the supposed prowess of America's homegrown medicine. Many of the most wildly inaccurate statements have been directed abroad — sometimes at the United States' closest allies, such as Britain and Canada, and often at the best health-care systems in the world.
...
The lie: Stephen Hawking (who has Lou Gehrig's disease)...would not receive treatment in Britain, which has a government-run health-care system.
The liars: An editorial in Investor's Business Daily on July 31 claimed: "People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service [NHS] would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."
...
this is nonsense.
Hawking, who is British, receives intensive treatment for his degenerative motor neuron disease at a local Cambridge hospital. Upon hearing the rumors of his non-treatment, the prizewinning theoretical physicist told The Guardian, "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."