[lbo-talk] Stephen Hawking, dead because of socialized medicine

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 01:01:39 PDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Bill Bartlett<billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:
>
>> The controlling of medical costs in countries such as Britain through
>> rationing, and the health consequences thereof are legendary. The stories of
>> people dying on a waiting list or being denied altogether read like a horror
>> movie script.
>>
>> The U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
>> basically figures out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility
>> analysis based on the "quality adjusted life year."
>
>
> If someone said that to my face and I had a loaded gun in my hand I wouldn't
> trust myself not to exterminate the animal that said it. Like you would a
> snarling, foaming at the mouth, mad dog. Writing such a thing is more than
> sufficient reason to summarily execute the author.

Or, as my favorite internet tagline says: "some people make me pro-Nuclear".

;-) FC



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