Universal Health Care -- shhhh don't talk to the nurses

Imagine being in a hospital and you start to feel a chest pain and shortness of breath, you yell out to a group of nurses that are nearby, and much to your shock and horror they turn around and command you to shhhhhhh -- there on the front of their medical frocks emblazoned in bold white letters it reads "Do not Disturb"

Can you imagine Florence Nightingale walking among the wounded in the Crimea with a sign round her neck saying ‘Do not disturb’? Or wearing a uniform emblazoned with the words ‘Sort out your own problems — I’m too important to help’?

That's exactly what is happening in Britain where patients are outraged at the latest chilling inversion to the basic tenets of health care. In NHS (National Health Service ) hospital wards today, nurses are sporting bright red tabards printed on the front with the bold words: ‘Do not disturb, drug round in progress.’

After pilot schemes in Kent, these deeply offensive tabards are to be worn by nurses in hospitals across the country. The rationale, according to the hospital trusts, is that patients asking nurses for help will distract them while they are giving out medicines.

The idea, while typical of government run entities, seems grotesque and ridiculous, and is a perversion to the whole idea of health care. I mean if you can't do more that one thing at a time, maybe you should be working on an assembly line at the auto plant, not as a nurse at a hospital.

There are still a lot of hard working dedicated professionals working at hospitals both here in the U.S. and Britain, but that is changing. Government run health care is changing the game, and many would say not for the better. There are far too many people in health care that maybe should not be there, and spend most of their time hiding behind computers, laboriously filling in forms or chatting among themselves.

America is often criticized for its lack of a universal health-care system comparable to the Europeans and Canadians, even though Germany, the United Kingdom and even Canada are increasingly turning to the private sector in order to relieve the financial burden on government and solve serious delivery problems, most notably rationing by queue, and a prolonged wait times for many services, including critical care services cancer treatment and cardiac surgery.

So if you happened to be unfortunate enough to have had a stay in the hospital recently, and had that feeling of deja vu, that you were not at the hospital, but at the DMV getting your drivers' license renewed, it's not your imagination. over half the health care in America is now government run health care.

Helping people is a moral issue. The government should not be in the business of forcing people to do moral things.

From : The Daily Mail

Full Cultural Assualt on America Values Continues

Thanks to Patriot Post

Three disturbing stories surfaced this week that illustrates a disturbing trend in the sexualization of our society (CONTENT WARNING). First up, the Department of Health and Human Services has offered "Questions and Answers About Sex," a link on their "Quick Guide to Healthy Living." If you think the questions are scary, the answers are worse. The premise is, "Children are human beings and therefore sexual beings. ... [E]ven infants have curiosity about their own bodies, which is healthy and normal." HHS therefore tells parents not to worry about teen experimentation with sex, homosexuality or masturbation, as these are healthy steps for children to take. On the contrary, Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the conservative Family Research Council, puts it bluntly: "The idea that 'children are human beings and therefore sexual beings' is one of the most destructive myths of the sexual revolution."

Meanwhile, B4U-Act, a 501(c)(3) organization in Maryland that was established "to publicly promote services and resources for self-identified individuals (adults and adolescents) who are sexually attracted to children," held a "scientific" symposium last week. The topic was a proposed new definition of pedophilia in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Some actually pushed the idea that pedophilia should be decriminalized, a position HHS, for one, might have a hard time arguing against given the aforementioned story.

Finally, a Florida Teacher of the Year was suspended for posting comments on Facebook objecting to New York's legalization of same-sex marriage earlier this year. He cited "biblical principles" -- specifically, "Romans chapter one" -- for his opposition. It is not known whether any students are his "friends" on Facebook, but, apparently, the "sexual beings" in his classroom mustn't be given the information necessary to decide right from wrong for themselves. As a side note, in 2008, 62 percent of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.