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The Guardian (UK) reported that a Labour member of parliament, Paul Flynn said that the Olympic opening ceremonies were in fact left wing politics: Paul Flynn, MP for Newport West, praised Danny Boyle for highlighting the NHS, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the futility of war. “Wonderfully progressive socialist sentiments and ideas were smuggled [...]

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This article suggests that most people have criticized the tweets of a Tory member of Parliament, Aidan Burley, that the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics were too tilted to the left.  Here’s the tweets and my comments: One post from him read: “The most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen – more than Beijing, the [...]

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The Olympic opening ceremonies are winding down and I did not want a nasty letter from NBC saying I violated copyright or something, so I did not live blog the event.  Here are my observations: Started out with a FABULOUS hymn – Jerusalem!  They sang it in such as way asfor many of us Yanks [...]

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The AP reports this morning, “President Barack Obama intends to use the congressional recess to bypass the Senate and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick, an expert on patient care who’s drawn fire from the GOP, to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the White House announced late Tuesday.” Berwick’s nomination has been controversial since President Obama first put [...]

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The liberals managed to use hook and crook to shove through a horrible bill disguised as Health Care Reform. However, the bill does nothing to fix the high cost of health care, and everything to attack the true enemy of Socialized Medicine – the Insurance Industry.

Liberals were overjoyed at passing the bill. Not because it does anything good, but because they now have the framework on which to build a complete government takeover of America’s Health Care, European style.

The problem is, most people do not really know a whole lot about what goes on behind the Utopian idea of free and comprehensive health care. When this Utopian fantasy runs into the real world financial wall, something’s gotta give.

Sadly, patient care is what gives. Our current system in the US is undeniably costly, but the central focus is patient care, not dollars. So, while expensive, there are virtually no waiting lists for care outside of organ transplants. Not so in the UK, a country with a mature socialized medical care system in place. The focus has evolved away from patient care and more towards cost. Like Social Security and Medicare in the US, the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK is fighting spiraling costs and insufficient funding.

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