Filmmaker Stuart Browning shows the callousness of “single-payer”, government-run health care systems as practiced in Canada.
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A Short Course in Brain Surgery
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Top Ten Reasons For Seniors to Oppose Obama Initiatives for Nationalized Health Care
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Anonymous, Used by Permission
Written June, 2009
Introduction
The government already has promised more than it can deliver to those on Medicare. If it now makes more promises that it cannot keep, the system could collapse for everyone. Certainly the Obama health care plan will require scaling back medical care for those on Medicare — by rationing services.
If press reports are at all correct about what will be in the Administration bill (still being kept a secret from the American people), it has become the author’s view that Seniors are among the groups which will be most disadvantaged by the Administration bill.
Top Ten Reasons
1. The Obama proposal is based upon the faulty premise or hypothesis that there are 46 million Americans without health care. This statement has been repeated so often that it has become almost a “mantra,” but it is not true. (more…)
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch…
Quote of the Day: “The high cost and inequitable character of our medical care system are the direct result of our steady movement toward reliance on third-party payment. A cure requires reversing course, re-privatizing medical care by eliminating most third-party payment, and restoring the role of insurance to providing protection against major medical catastrophes.” – Milton Friedman
Subject: New allies fighting for what you want
We’ve always worked with other groups, forming coalitions to protect your money and your rights. These groups have been as diverse as the ACLU and Focus on the Family. We’ve been able to do this because . . .
Partisan electoral politics divides, while a focus on specific issues unites.
People of many differing partisan and philosophical views can still find many issues on which they agree. When these agreements aim at Downsizing DC we try to make common cause.
A great example is the health care issue, where DownsizeDC.org is joing with other groups to . . . (more…)