The Numbers Don’t Lie, Nationalized Health Care Means You’re More Likely to Die
Here are some statistics that should send a chill through anyone that may visit a doctor in their lifetime. Nationalized health care is a disastrous proposal that will put your life at greater risk.
Via Doug Ross@Journal and Hot Air here are some of the scary numbers.
81: Average percentage of those who survive a diagnosis of prostate cancer in the United States versus 43% in Britain under their National Health Service.
90: Number of days, on average, each Canadian patient must wait for an MRI under the Canadian government-run health care system.
10,000: Number of Canadian breast cancer patients to file a class action lawsuit against Quebec’s hospitals because, on average, they were forced to wait 60 days to begin post-operative radiation treatments.
$311,000,000 ($311 million): The amount of additional funding requested last month by the Obama administration simply to combat Medicare fraud. Medicare fraud is estimated at $60 billion annually.
$3,600,000,000 ($3.6 billion): The amount of added malpractice insurance costs to the current health care system instigated by an out-of-control trial lawyer lobby that donates heavily to Democrat causes.
$10,000,000,000 ($10 billion): The estimated amount of Medicaid fraud, based upon FBI estimates. Criminal practices include billing for nonexistent, overstated, or unnecessary services, kickbacks to patients, inflated costs, etc.
$60,000,000,000 ($60 billion): The estimated annual amount of Medicare fraud, due to widespread criminal operations that victimize taxpayers and specialize in dead doctors, fake patients, non-existent treatments and the like.
$107,000,000,000,000 ($107 trillion): The estimated shortfall of the Medicare and Social Security programs, which are utterly and completely bankrupt; they can be legitimately called an “enormous version of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi
Make sure to read the entire post in order to grasp the full impact that Obamacare will have on all of us.
Michelle Malkin provides several links to what is going on in Washington regarding Obamacare. It looks like more of us are letting their Senators know that this recipe for disaster must not pass.
I have personally witnessed the bureaucratic nightmare and inferior quality of care provided to my in-laws in the Netherlands. Be careful what you wish for America, you just may get it.
July 7, 2009
Tags: Barack Obama, Democrat Congress, Federal Budget, Medicaid, Medicare, National Healthcare, Social Security, Socialism, Socialized Medicine Posted in: Economy, Politics
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