our budgets will remain unsustainable unless we get health care costs under control.

And they will do that how? By rationing it of course. All other entitlement programs will be saved but the one that means the most for continuing life will be limited.

After all what could get the health care costs under control faster than hastening the death of the ones that need it the most.

As someone who suffered through National healthcare in the United Kingdom…let me tell you…no, let me SHOUT it to you liberal morons…

“IT DOES NOT WORK” !

Thanks to the “investment” of the government, my father waited in line for a heart procedure that he never got and passed away.

I was NEVER diagnosed with DIABETES until I came to this country and had a medical exam – I was DIABETIC for over 10 years apparently that never got picked up in the UK because they thought it was not “worth” checking me, even though both my parent, my grandparents, my uncles and aunts had DIABETES….

Nationalized Healthcare…. SUCKS!!!

For GOD’s sake….even the CANADIANS have told you that it doesn’t work!!!

WAKE UP AMERICA.

Liberal translation:

“Pour gasoline on the fire to put it out…”

Yeah! And remember when the financial crisis really first hit back in September, and people were all shouting about how we HAD to get health care costs under control or the economy could crash ?

Oh, wait, no they didn’t. Must be because the two things HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ONE ANOTHER. What a load of complete bullshit.

Everytime they do this kind of thing they lie about the real costs.

Medicare was supposed to cost a few tens of billions of dollars.

SCHIP was supposed to be a cheap program to help kids.

Not to mention, what exactly does he mean by that ?

If we can drastically lower health care, then MASSIVE government spending is sustainable because all that money being spent on health care will just be re-directed to the government in the form of taxes ?

Oh, BRILLIANT idea.

LOTP,

Let me, too, express my condolences for your loss.

But as to convincing Leftards that one of their policies does not work, good luck. They have in place something almost exclusive to the Left, a defining characteristic in fact:

PSYCHO-BLOCK

… a psychological osmotic membrane — a selective barrier — that functions to filter out all aspects of reality that challenge the party line.

History, both current and distant, selectively filtered out. The endless failures, tragedies and tyrannical excesses of Statism — all filtered out.

Every lesson that has demonstrated that command economies do not work, and to the degree they do, come at a tremendous human cost — all filtered out.

That forced busing and school integration (actually a guise for government takeover of American schools) has resulted in plummeting academic achievement and created serious disciplinary problems in American schools — all filtered out.

That their continued withdrawal of American support for numerous countries fighting for their existence while under assault by Marxist-backed guerrilla or terrorist movements has never resulted in more freedom, but has always resulted in a country where freedom has been extinguished and mass slaughter (such as SE Asia’s Killing Fields and the rioting and murder in what was once Rhodesia and South Africa) – all filtered out.

That Liberal policies vis-a-vis immigration, welfare and the government-forced reverse discrimination so elegantly named Affirmative Action, have failed across the board — all filtered out.

Instead, they parrot the Party line and declare victory over the rubble their program has created (sounds kinda like Hann, constantly declaring himself the victor…. hmmmm )

The Leftist’s mind, on one level, HAS to be aware of these facts, but only enough to actively screen them out.

Orwell described it as DOUBLE-THINK.

The bottom line is that being a Leftist means being completely incapable of objectively processing data from the world around you.

Leftists — in no small way — are insane.

Again, statistics from all other OECD nations support Obama’s point.

What statistics are those? Because I can tell you that they aren’t being measured uniformly.

Take infant mortality rates. In America, we consider a child to be a child (for statistical purposes) from the very instant if emerges from the womb. In other countries the child must survive outside the womb first for as long as 24 hours.

So America reports a lot more infant mortalities because we actually count infants that die outside the womb in the first 24 hours.

And life expectancy? Well, Americans live unhealthier lifestyles than a lot of other places. We’re a violent culture. We work longer and harder hours. We eat unhealthily. This is not so much a product of our health care system but a product of the lives we choose to lead.

So, your statistics are meaningless.

Besides, who wants to live longer in a world where the government decides when, where and how you get medical care. Where the government dictates certain kinds of lifestyles to live so that you can remain eligible for health care.

AV, for all your whining about statists and such you’re the biggest statist I’ve ever met.