Healthy Skepticism

Pelosi is once again claiming the end is near on healthcare. That’s nothing new, a fact Drudge had some fun with today, but this bit rankles:

These states, New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts among them, already provide coverage under the low-income program for the poor that other states do not but would be required to if the legislation passes. The 12 are concerned that they will effectively be penalized for having been more generous than the rest of the country.

Memo to whoever writes the AP’s style guide: it isn’t generosity when you’re spending other people’s money. That’s called “social justice” or more commonly “socialism.” Generosity describes an act whereby the politicians donate all their own personal assets to charity (the accompanying frost warnings in Hades might also end the whole global warming scare).
Oddly, the article doesn’t mention Stupak. Unless he and his bloc back down on abortion, the House cannot pass the Senate version, and if they pass a modified version the Senate cannot pass the modified abortion language through reconciliation even if they can get the votes for such a move, as it isn’t a budgetary measure.
Meanwhile, Obama’s healthcare push has him at a new low of 43 percent approval — and an astounding -21 on the passion index; he’s down almost two to one among those with a strong opinion. It’s a longish way to November 2012, but Obama has a lot of ground to make up. And the number of people who buy the Obamacare budget numbers is about the same who think Elvis is somwhere out there crooning to little gray people on a mothership.
It does look like this will probably be the last Obamacare push either way it goes, if only because there won’t be enough elected Democrats to pursue the destruction of American healthcare after November. So anyone who doesn’t want their bodies or the U.S. budget on the Liverpool pathway should give their last, best, hardest push over the next few weeks.
Spread the mantra!
U.S. does 2x as many transplants as OECD average
U.S. has best cancer survival rates in OECD
Death panels in Britain are putting people to death who could have recovered
Death panels: now in kids’ sizes too! Infants being left to die.
U.S. has more MRIS “it was found that Canada had 4.6 MRI scanners per million population while the U.S. had 19.5 per million”
U.S. has about twice as many MRIs as OECD average
The U.S. gets new drugs 1 year sooner “On average, the FDA approval came 1 year ahead of clearance by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA).”
“Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway.”
“The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country”
U.S. performs more operations than any country in the world.
Lower U.S. life expectancy does not argue U.S. has worse health care due to lifestyle factors and differences in how infant mortality is reported
Please share, steal, print on a bumper sticker, chisel in granite, or drip in syrup on a naked woman any of the above facts, no attribution needed. Don’t let them take the best care in the world away from us without a fight!