A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers
Edward Teach
Steep reduction in referrals by GPs suggests that patients are being given limited access to specialist clinical advice and will miss out on treatments.
Professor Norman Williams described the figures as “extremely disturbing”.
Rationing by stealth is occurring across the British National Health Service (Medicare).
This is extremely concerning for surgeons across the NHS.
Stopping referrals is only storing up problems for the future – a timebomb which will end up costing the NHS and taxpayer more in the long-term.
The rise in waiting times for orthopaedic surgery is an indicator that demand for surgery is not reducing and that the issue of rationing needs to be addressed
British Medical Association (BMA) was also worried.
A spokesman said: “The NHS is under a lot of pressure to do less, for example through referral management initiatives, which seem to be on the increase.
Health authorities tightening up on referral criteria insisting those who are obese go on weight control programmes before receiving surgery
Procedures including hip and knee replacements moved to ‘low priority’ lists.
British Orthopaedic Association is concerned that authorities were actively trying to put patients off surgery to save money.
There has, however, been an immense amount of work to reduce the number of referrals
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way for doing food to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin Franklin “On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor” November 1766
By Doug Hornig 8-17-11
The noose around Washington, D.C.’s neck continues to tighten, with no clear way to remove it. Behind the scenes, there is undoubtedly a rising sense of panic. That’s bad. The last thing you want is panicky people operating the far-reaching power levers of the state.
But if push does come to shove, history teaches us, the government will not hesitate to clamp down on its subjects by whatever means necessary to preserve itself. And the best way to mute resistance is to prepare citizens ahead of time for escalating levels of police control. An enhanced law enforcement presence must be accepted as the new normal. But rest assured, it’s “for our own good.”
That disclaimer has been used to hoodwink decent folk forever. But the truth is, what’s really up is the application of the time-tested political axiom that the more fearful people are, the easier they are to control. We’ve seen this principle at work for years. Politicians continually pass more intrusive laws; and police take increasing liberties with our rights, content that the courts will back them up… which they have done, as spineless judges hand them larger and larger cartes blanche to act however they please. The first ten amendments to the Constitution have been largely gutted. The things the Founders cared most passionately about have been tossed into the dustbin.
We’re told: that our homes are no longer safe from no-knock entries, and warrants be damned (precisely the abuse that most riled the revolutionary colonists); that we should rat out our neighbors at the first sign that something is “amiss,” just as in any communist state you care to mention; and that it should be regarded as okay that warrants of all kinds are commonly served by gangs of helmeted thugs, covered with body armor and toting a dizzying array of lethal weapons.
Readers of a certain age will remember when the police were called peace officers, as their job was primarily to maintain the peace. Who’s heard that quaint term lately? No, now they are law enforcement officers, and they are at war with a widening swath of the citizenry. And the targets of overwhelming force are not just murderers and rapists and armed robbers. SWAT teams are routinely dispatched to deal with bickering spouses, zoned-out pot smokers, parking ticket violators, and those delinquent in loan payments.
Make no mistake about it: Authorities around the country have gotten the message from Washington that a complaisant populace is required. And they’re dutifully applying the heat. It may seem odd that they’re going after ever less-violent people, but it makes perfect sense. It’s in the government’s interest to suggest that all of us are potential suspects.
Take, for instance, the case of Rawesome Foods in California, a private buying club dedicated to bringing the most wholesome, natural food products to its members. Does that sound like a criminal conspiracy? It did to local and federal officials, who staged a joint SWAT-style raid on the club last week. Without a warrant, officers entered the storefront, seize cash, destroyed inventory, and jailed the club’s founder
But if those in power are really serious about creating a docile population, there is absolutely no better way to go about it than criminalizing children. Yes, children.
No, I’m not talking about SWAT raids here. But in a way, this is even more insidious, because the effort is directed at teaching kids at an early age that Big Brother is always watching and that you’d better be sure you obey the letter of every law (as if anyone could possibly know what they all are) or you’re in for trouble with the Man.
This has been - and I swear I am not making this up - the summer of the lemonade-stand bust. Yep, children’s lemonade stands have been closed down in states all over the country, including California, Oregon, and Texas - and even, astonishingly, in such bedrock, sensible-values American heartland states as Wisconsin and Iowa.
The latest of these important police actions came in small-town Georgia, where the local cops advised the kids in question that they had to cease and desist from selling their lemonade until they forked over $50 a day for a business license. Watch this news report only if you have a strong stomach and your outrage button is not easily pushed.
That video is instructive in oh so many wonderful ways.
First, take a good look at the head cop as she explains their actions. “The law is the law” is about as close as you can get to “I was only following orders.” Squint your eyes a little. She’d look perfect decked out in SS lightning bolts, wouldn’t she?
Next, consider the little girl who says, “… but we had to listen to the cops.” She’s learned her lesson.
Then there’s mom. We’re sure that if she were one of our readers that stand would’ve been up and running the next day, and every day until the police were forced to take those kids to court over this. But not here. This mom is backing away from the issue, saying, “I’m trying to teach my kids good, and I don’t think it’ll teach ‘em good if I keep on an’ on with this.” Right, the lesson wasn’t only for the children.
Finally, in addition to instilling fear of authority in our most impressionable citizens, there’s an added kicker to this incident. What better way to kill the entrepreneurial spirit in its cradle and set us up for the day when we all work for the state?
Question: What’s the point when we finally announce that we’re not going to take it any more? If that point isn’t when they go after our kids, then there isn’t one.
A recent “Investor’s Business Daily” article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.
Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. 65%
England 46%
Canada 42%
Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S. 93%
England 15%
Canada 43%
Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. 90%
England 15%
Canada 43%
Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:
U.S. 77%
England 40%
Canada 43%
Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. 71%
England 14%
Canada 18%
Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in “excellent health”:
U.S. 12%
England 2%
Canada 6%
Thank you for this forum, Timofeevich Khalasnikov
Let me get this straight……
We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan that we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t,
Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people,
without adding a single new doctor,
but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,
written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it,
passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it,
and signed by a President who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes,
for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any “benefits” take effect,
by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,
all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,
and financed by a country that’s broke!
What could possibly go wrong ?
CNSNews.com – When unveiling a proposal to reform Medicare alongside Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) warned that the entitlement program will eventually “go broke” and lead to a “fiscal disaster” for the United States.
“Each Medicare enrollee will on the average take almost three times more out in Medicare benefits than they contribute in payroll taxes and premiums,” Lieberman said during a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday.“That’s why we say that the status quo of Medicare is unsustainable. And what we mean is that if we do nothing, Medicare will go broke and take our government down with it.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/lieberman-medicare-will-go-broke-and-tak (for full article & video)
Regards, Mrs. Val Veeta
“Adoption of ObamaCare will alter forever the relationship between the people and the State by changing a free Citizen into a Subject”
Jim Quinn WPGB Radio Host
May/June 2011 Pennsylvania Dental Journal:
Soon coming to a dentist near you……..
It seems that the British government is unhappy with their dentists. They feel that the dentists are taking advantage of patients and overbilling the government. National Institute for Health and Clinical Health (NIHCH) states traditional six-month dental checkup was unnecessary and replaced with a progressive two-year recall. This rule is from the same bureaucrats that have 4 dentists for 10,000, while the US has 10 dentists for 10,000.
Thank you, John Profumo & Cristine Keeler
REPORT: Direct from England’s Daily Mail and Telegraph newspapers. Please read what awaits the American Citizen under Obama’s Socliaized Medicine
HOSPITALS: Elderly patients dying of thirst: Doctors forced to prescribe drinking water to keep the old alive, reveals devastating report on hospital care http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1390925/Elderly-patients-dying-thirst-Doctors-forced-prescribe-drinking-water-old-alive-reveals-devastating-report-hospital-care.html
NURSES: England’s nurses think elderly are not worthy of their time httptp://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8538433/NHS-nurses-think-care-of-elderly-is-beneath-them.html
I have great concern in 6 years I will be categorized as “elderly” Anna Tomy (London)