August 13th, 2009
Good Healthcare Will Kill Us All!
From an editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD):
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
The only problem is that the Investor’s Business Daily seems to not realize that Dr. Hawking is British and has been treated by the NHS his entire life. As Dr. Hawking said today after the editorial was published, “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.”
The editorial in the IBD represents the types of arguments that are being made against Obama’s health plan. But they fail to take into account that every European country has nationalized health insurance and yet they aren’t bankrupt and they aren’t sending their senior citizens to concentration camps to be executed.
