Socialized Healthcare

National Healthcare just doesn't sound appealing:

Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.

And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" will fly as far as Malaysa and South Africa for major surgery to avoid long waiting lists and the rising threat of superbugs, according to a new report.

Research by the Treatment Abroad website shows that Britons have travelled to 112 foreign hospitals, based in 48 countries, to find safe, affordable treatment.

Almost all of those who had received treatment abroad said they would do the same again, with patients pointing out that some hospitals in India had screening policies for the superbug MRSA that have yet to be introduced in this country.

Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, said the figures were a "terrible indictment" of government policies that were undermining the efforts of NHS staff to provide quality services.

The findings come amid further revelations about the Government's mishandling of NHS policies, and ahead of official statistics that will embarrass ministers.

On Wednesday, figures are expected to show rising numbers of hospital infections. Cases of the superbug Clostridium difficile, which have risen five-fold in the past decade, are expected to increase beyond the 55,000 cases reported last year.

On the same day, statistics will show that vast sums have been spent on pay, with GPs' earnings rising by more than 50 per cent in three years to an average of more than £110,000.

New research shows that growing NHS bureaucracy has left nurses with little time to see patients – most spending long periods dealing with paperwork.

Katherine Murphy, of the Patients' Association, said the health tourism figures reflected shrinking public faith in the Government's handling of the NHS.

"The confidence that the public has in NHS hospitals has been shattered by the growth of hospital infections and this Government's failure to make a real commitment to tackling it," she told The Sunday Telegraph.

"People are simply frightened of going to NHS hospitals, so I am not surprised the numbers going abroad are increasing so rapidly.

link

Stop the Logging!!!

From the LA TImes: (link)

Still, evidence was dramatic in the thinned forest areas. In one cluster of Lake Arrowhead neighborhoods protected by fuel breaks, only a few stumps were burning and no trees were lost. Hundreds of surrounding homes were untouched.

Some of the worst-hit areas like Running Springs don't have fuel breaks. Just 20% of Big Bear is protected by breaks, fire officials said.

If environmental groups wouldn't bring lawsuits against 59% of the initiatives to thin forests - more property would have been saved.

35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie

The 35 falsehoods in an Inconvenient Truth.  The first nine were cited in a recent lawsuit in London because they were unable to substantiate them.  The commented the only thing that limited further investigation was time.  

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html

Of course this is nothing new for Al Gore who said in a 2006 interview: (link)

Question: There's a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What's the right mix?

Answer: I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis. 

Is anyone surprised that he over-represented the factual presentation so that people would be more receptive to the solutions to his non-existent problem?

Empire State Building Going Green

The Empire State Building returned to being called the tallest
building in New York after Islamic terrorists knocked down the #1
and #2 tallest building. Someone in NYC had the bright idea that
for the first time in history the Empire State Building would go
green to honor the end of the Muslim holiday ramadan.

Of Course !!!

"You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement."  -Rep. Pete Stark (D-Cal)

You just can't make this stuff up.

Upsetting Marine Charity

Rush Limbaugh is auctioning off the letter sent to him by Democrats to create the fake phony soldiers scandal.   He has pledged to donate and match all the proceeds to Marines Corp - Law Enforcement Foundation - a scholarship assistance to children of Marines and Federal law enforcement personnel whose parent dies on duty.  See the auction until noon Oct. 19th here.

Of course for the left this is unacceptable.  Here is their brightest minds trying to figure out how to keep the money away from Marine children.:

link

Brought to you by the people who proved 9/11 was a controlled demolition:

link

UPDATE:  

Current price:

Clinton socialism

"I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all."  -  Hillary Clinton

No kidding.  Is there any question that the left is sprinting towards socialism?