I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick … this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow
Obama not only believes that he controls sea level, but he also believes that he will be talking to his children “generations from now”
This guy is a world class whack job.
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And we have always cared for the sick. What kind of deluded asshole would claim that he was the first to do it?
A democrat.
The imagery is itself the objective. Something for the plebes to focus on while their pockets are being picked. The purpose of the “Health Care” bill is only to bankrupt the country. Not to help anyone. Just as all “solutions” for the climate con and environmentalism are the suppression or plunder of our economy.
It’s just delusion, “delusions of grandeur” in fact. If you saw his face when he realized he had been re-elected, and the crowd around him was cheering, you would know he took it as profound reassurance of his “destiny” (his look was not of great satisfaction or elation, it was almost tearful GRATEFULNESS, just for a few moments–and his delusion was fortified beyond all question. When he hits the wall of reality–as he will, just as General Custer did, for example, and countless men and women throughout history–it will probably kill him. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fpwhA-LdOHo#!
Better this way.
He actually makes more sense.
“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick … this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow”
Immortal, and omnipotent for health care, sea levels and climate control.
How can you fail to be impressed?
“…this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick … this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow…”
Trust me, when the truth comes out about how much we were misled by the “climate scientists”, a lot of people will get very sick.
This was the moment when he read the teleprompter. As usual, he’s just reading. He doesn’t comprehend what he’s reading. He comprehends little.
The U.S. is a very rich country, but even so, it devotes far more of its economy — 17.6 percent of GDP in 2010 — to health than any other country. The Netherlands is the next highest, at 12 percent of GDP, and the average among OECD countries was almost half that of the U.S., at 9.5 percent of GDP.
Apparently Obama was lying when he said that the US doesn’t have health care.
(Reuters) – Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system, according to a report released on Wednesday.
The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries — Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report found.
Every other system covers all its citizens, the report noted and said the U.S. system, which leaves 46 million Americans or 15 percent of the population without health insurance, is the most unfair.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/23/us-usa-healthcare-last-idUSTRE65M0SU20100623
Complete nonsense propaganda. US has much better health care than the UK or Canada, where people often have to wait months or years for surgery.
True enough: If insured, waiting times for U.S. patients are among the lowest in OECD countries. Relatively fewer patients (just 20 percent) wait more than four weeks for a specialist appointment or more than four months for elective surgery (7 percent).
But we still pay almost twice as much, with no coverage for 47 million people. Under the previous system insurance companies could refuse to cover you with any pre-existing conditions, cap benefits, and simply stop paying when you got sick or injured. Now they can’t do that.
Health insurance has now become welfare because it’s no longer insurance when the govt. is going to force coverage and subsidize it. You don’t wreck your car and then buy insurance to cover the wreck, which is basically how O care works. Millions of illegal aliens have wrecked healthcare forcing emergency rooms and hospitals to close. There has never been a bigger boondoggle than O Care, which nobody really understands, including the people putting it into effect.
So you prefer the previous “system”: The US pays almost twice as much as other similar countries, with no coverage for 47 million people. Under the previous system insurance companies could refuse to cover you with any pre-existing conditions, cap benefits, and simply stop paying when you got sick or injured.
Why do Canadians with socialized medicine fill up US hospitals? If their system is so wonderful, why aren’t people going the other way?
No system is perfect. But I can find no studies where US health care ranks above Canada, or does very well overall. Have you any?
(Reuters) – Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system, according to a report released on Wednesday.
The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries — Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report found.
Every other system covers all its citizens, the report noted and said the U.S. system, which leaves 46 million Americans or 15 percent of the population without health insurance, is the most unfair.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/23/us-usa-healthcare-last-idUSTRE65M0SU20100623
I have checked out the methodology of these “reports” and found they choose meters that favor anyone other than the US. For instance, they always give infant mortality a place of prominence in the weight of the “study” (hatchet job). And the reason they do this? The US is the only country in the world that accurately records infant mortality. Some countries will not count dead children until they reach their first birthday.
GIGO.
Where then are your “non garbage” reports? Do you dispute the cost the US pays?
The only time I ever had an issue with my healthcare was when the government covered it. The US military denied surgery I needed for hyperthyroidism. They deemed it “experimental”, while my doctor deemed it necessary. Thankfully we found one of the world’s leading surgeons in this field who offered to do it for free.
I have never complained about the cost of my healthcare.
I found this:
The first myth Carroll takes on is the oft-heard one about Canadians supposedly “flocking” to the U.S. to get medical care. An eye-popping pie chart, generated by peer-reviewed journal “Health Affairs,” shows only a tiny sliver of Canadians heading south for care — less than 1%.
Even more telling here is a “Health Affairs” survey of U.S. hospitals near the Canadian border, where you’d expect all these “care-deprived” Canucks to go first. A vast majority saw fewer than one Canadian a month. Bigger hospitals, even those rated by U.S. News & World Report as “America’s Best,” also saw very few Canadians, in either emergency or elective care. And these are exactly the hospitals where you’d expect to well-off Canadians to go.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-08-09/commentary/33111026_1_canadian-system-single-payer-medical-system-medical-care
How many Canadians do you think will use a US address to minimize their hospital bills?
I give up–how many?
At least one I know personally, who was on a waiting list for 6 months for a thyroidectomy in Canada, which was abominable to her, and she moved to the US permanently because of this sick system in Canada.
I found this poll from 2011:
Those with incomes less than $50,000 most likely to view the quality of their care as low
Princeton, N.J. – A new poll shows most Americans believe the quality of U.S. health care is average at best—sober news for the nation’s health care leaders. More than half of American adults surveyed (55%) barely give the quality of American health care a passing grade—a C or D on a standard report card scale. More than one in 10 (11%) give the quality of care an F. In addition, nearly half (47%) of Americans give the quality of hospital care in the country a rating of C, D or F.
Put into an international perspective, however, Canada’s system looks to be relatively well liked. A 2011 Gallup Poll found that 57 percent of Canadians felt “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their access to health care services (in the United States, that number stood at just 25 percent).
Here’s the Gallup Poll from 2010.
The 62% of Americans who now rate the quality of healthcare in the U.S. as excellent or good is four percentage points higher than last year. A majority of Americans have consistently rated the quality of U.S. healthcare positively, though in 2005 and 2006, a low of 53% held this view.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 49.9 million residents, 16.3% of the population, were uninsured in 2010 (up from 49.0 million residents, 16.1% of the population, in 2009). A 2004 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report said: “The United States is among the few industrialized nations in the world that does not guarantee access to health care for its population.” A 2004 OECD report said: “With the exception of Mexico, Turkey, and the United States, all OECD countries had achieved universal or near-universal (at least 98.4% insured) coverage of their populations by 1990.” A 2010 report observed that lack of health insurance causes roughly 48,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States. In 2007, 62.1% of filers for bankruptcies claimed high medical expenses. A 2013 study found that about 25% of all senior citizens declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses, and 43% are forced to mortgage or sell their primary residence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
Record fall in NHS satisfaction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18398698
“Three-quarters of Canadians support being able to buy private health insurance for all forms of medically necessary treatment, including cancer care and heart surgery, which they could then obtain outside of the public health care system.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canadians+want+choice+they+access+health+care+poll/6850577/story.html