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UK’s socialized medicine so wonderful that their own doctors turning to private medical care for themselves

The same health care system that the left would force upon us is so dreadful that the UK’s own system doesn’t trust itself to provide quality health care to its own employees.  From the UK:

An NHS trust has spent more than £12,000 on private treatment for hospital staff because its own waiting times are too long. The money was used to bring in physiotherapists to help workers recover from muscular-skeletal injuries at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.

Bosses said it prevented them from leapfrogging NHS patients and enabled them to return to work more quickly.

However, the private treatment, which amounted to £12,116 for 271 appointments over the past year, was described by critics as “shocking”.

Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Their staff should have to wait like everybody else.  Perhaps if they experienced it as their customers – that is the taxpayer – experienced it, they might be a little keener to improve their waiting times.”

Wow!  Let that sink in for a second.  “Our system sucks so badly that we need to go outside of our own system to make sure that we get the quick and efficient care that we need.  That way, our employees can get back to the business of providing slow and inefficient care to everyone else.”  Only to Euros would that explanation make sense.

October 14, 2008 Posted by | Euros, health care, hypocrisy, socialism | 4 Comments

Obama embraces his inner Marxist

From The One’s own mouth, in Ohio:

Barack Obama told a tax-burdened plumber over the weekend that his economic philosophy is to “spread the wealth around” — a comment that may only draw fire from riled-up John McCain supporters who have taken to calling Obama a “socialist” at the Republican’s rallies. 

Obama made the remark, caught on camera, after fielding some tough questions from the plumber Sunday in Ohio, where the Democratic candidate canvassed neighborhoods and encouraged residents to vote early. 

“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed “more and more for fulfilling the American dream.” 

“It’s not that I want to punish your success (bovine feces! – Ed.). I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” Obama responded. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Team Mac responds:

“If Barack Obama’s goal as President is to ‘spread the wealth around,’ perhaps his unconditional meetings with Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro, and Kim Jong-Il aren’t so crazy — if nothing else they can advise an Obama administration on economic policy,” McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb said in a written statement to FOXNews.com. “In contrast, John McCain’s goal as president will be to let the American people prosper unburdened by government and ever higher taxes.”

But hey, why would anyone get this crazy idea that Obama is a Marxist?

October 14, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, Obama, socialism | 5 Comments

   

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