Jul 27 2010
Learning from what’s been tried before. British NHS.
Over the years, we the people have been led to believe that progressives, also known as higher education academia, liberals, politicians called democrats (and many republicans too), and socialists/Marxists were the experts continually providing Americans with all that expert advice on how we needed to live our lives. They’ve insisted they had our best interests in mind. They’ve insisted they had the evidence. Just as we’ve seen in the UNIPCC temperature data to manufacture the GW agenda, the evidence was tampered with. Now we’ve learned that there really is a brotherhood of journolisters conspiring behind the scenes. Independent news broadcasters? Yeah sure, we bought that line. You’ve seen the news broadcasts over the years telling us that the “experts” have discovered . . . . blah blah blah, and that . . . . blah blah blah was good for us. It continues on for weeks as daily sound bites. Repeating something over and over will finally sink in and soon the “we the people” will fall in line and behave as sheep.
The progressive expert scientists have told us the world began with a big bang, but how can nothing make a bang? From that we have had blah, blah, and more blah about how removing the Ten Commandments from schools was about separating church and state and that it was really really good for us to be quiet as there are those who might get offended. We were told that banning DDT would save the earth, but the fall out of not killing mosquitoes was killing millions of people. The progressive science experts told us melting icebergs will flood our lands unless we abandon our vehicles and comfy lifestyles, but suspend a glass with ice and water in a bathtub and it won’t flood over the tub. How many melted ice bergs will it take to raise 71% of the earth’s surface to flood stage? Blah blah blah. Are those experts secretly building an ark somewhere? Now, even a Christian denomination has accepted the . . . blah blah blah and are allowing celibate homosexual priests to be sexually active. Huh? Scientific studies said they have an abnormal gene and can’t help it? Experts? How can a government funded scientific study be seriously taken as seriously scientific?
So now the experts have a plan to provide health care and insurance for everyone, and it would dramatically improve our health care system, and . . . it will really be affordable for everyone, of course. So say the experts. It will revolutionize American health care. No one will be without insurance. You will no longer have to worry about a health emergency wiping out the bank account. Children will be covered for all their growing up wheezes and accidents, and gang members can get treatments too. The ones with previously existing conditions will be covered removing the anxiety and decisions of paying the high cost of insurance or feeding the family. Yes, it all sounds so morally right. It all sounds so caring, so charitable, so timely. How could anyone stand against such a utopia? No worries from here on out. The experts will take care of Grandma too. Trust them. The congressional committee “studies” confirm the experts.
The story will be similar to what is happening right now to the British system started in 1948.
Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.
The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished. Read it all. . .
How long will it take our leaders, our experts to learn from historical accounts of what’s been tried before by previous “experts”?
