{"id":17500,"date":"2011-01-19T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17500"},"modified":"2011-01-18T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T03:34:33","slug":"a-stunning-admission-and-a-damning-indictment-of-socialized-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17500","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Stunning Admission and a Damning Indictment of Socialized Medicine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socialized medicine in the UK is broken&#8230;and it took <em>them <\/em>sixty years to figure it out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article\/560156\/201101181901\/UK-Vs-ObamaCare.htm\">As the House moves to repeal the nationalization of health care<\/a>,  Britain plans to take a scalpel to its National Health Service, opening  it up to competition and letting doctors and patients call the shots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Geez. We hardly allow that <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was both a stunning admission and a damning indictment of  socialized medicine when British Prime Minister David Cameron in effect  admitted that the holy grail of nationalized health care, the British  National Health Service (NHS), was broken and in need of fixing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>While critics of his plan are already saying it could lead to backdoor  privatization of the NHS, Cameron stopped short of suggesting that is  his aim. Founded in 1948, NHS could be called the &#8220;third rail&#8221; of  British politics akin to our Social Security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is what will happen to Obamacare if allowed to progress against the will of most Americans. It reminds me of one of my financial planning tenets: A luxury becomes a necessity twenty four hours later.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We need modernization on both sides of the equation,&#8221; he said in his  speech. &#8220;Modernization to do something about the demand for public  health service, and modernization to make the supply of health care more  efficient, which is about opening up the system, making it more  competitive, cutting out waste and bureaucracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ObamaCare promises exactly the opposite, increasing demand and  coverage to the point of collapsing the system, taking decisions out of  the hands of physicians who promise to quit in droves and putting it in  the hands of a regulatory behemoth that decides who gets what care and  when.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Paging Doctor Dover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paging Doctor Ben Dover.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialized medicine in the UK is broken&#8230;and it took them sixty years to figure it out. As the House moves to repeal the nationalization of health care, Britain plans to take a scalpel to its National Health Service, opening it up to competition and letting doctors and patients call the shots. Geez. We hardly allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17500"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17514,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500\/revisions\/17514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}