Democrat Health Care, By The Numbers
0: The number of unrehearsed, unscripted questions asked of President Obama during his “Town Hall” on health care reform.
13: The number of teeth that British veteran Ian Boynton pulled out himself with pliers “because he couldn’t find an NHS (National Health Service) dentist.
14: The percentage of all patients in Britain who wait more than one (1) year to receive treatment after a referral by a general practitioner
750: The estimated number of people waiting in line (in the pouring rain) at Britain’s Bury Office attempting to register for dental care.
10,000: Number of Canadian breast cancer patients to file a class action lawsuit against Quebec’s hospitals because, on average,Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com
they were forced to wait 60 days to begin post-operative radiation treatments.
280,392: The number of jobs that employers would shed if government levied an employer mandate, requiring them to insure all employees. A 2007 study by Katherine Baicker of Harvard University and Helen Levy of the University of Michigan (”Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment“)
37: The “health care ranking” assigned to the U.S. by the World Health Organization among the world’s countries. This oft
-quoted number is used to justify an overhaul of the U.S. health care system and lists countries like Italy (2), Andorra (4), Malta (5), Singapore (6), Oman (8), Portugal (12), Greece (14), the United Kingdom (18), Ireland (19), Columbia (22), Cyprus (24), Saudi Arabia (26), the UAE (27), Morocco (29), Canada (30), Chile (33), the Dominican Republic (35) and Costa Rica (36) ahead of the U.S. Considering that no U.S. citizens travel to these countries when experiencing a life-threatening situation, it’s worth questioning the methods by which the WHO arrived at these rankings. Their criteria included subjective and political assessments such as “Fairness in financial contribution“. Suffice it to say that the WHO’s rankings are clearly fraudulent and are designed to influence U.S. policy.
1,500,000: The number of Canadians who do not have — and cannot find — a general practitioner/primary care physician due to shortages in medical staff: “In Norwood, Ontario, 20/20 videotaped a town clerk pulling the names of the lucky winners out of a lottery box.
They raped the Medicare Trust Fund — there’s nothing left. They raped the Highway Trust Fund — it’s empty. I could go down a long list of things the government said it would do, but hasn’t done. Because the big government statists are liars. They even moved these massive expenditures “off the books” to conceal the damage they’ve done.
