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

Calling Obama a liar is a pretty much a sure thing.

Remember when Republican Rep. Joe Wilson famously shouted at President Obama during a 2009 televised presidential address to a joint session of Congress, “You lie!”. well Wilson knows a sure thing when he sees it. The outburst, prompted by Obama pledging his health care reform bill would not benefit illegal immigrants.

But now Wilson says time has proved him right.

In an appearance on Fox News' America Live on Wednesday, Wilson said a recent award of $28 million to community health care centers around the country will no doubt benefit illegal immigrants, despite Obama’s pledge.

On his campaign website, Wilson wrote: “It is inevitable that they will serve illegal aliens. The president specifically promised the American people that ‘Obamacare’ would not cover those who are here illegally. He misled all of us.”

Department of Health and Human Services spokesmen have confirmed $8.5 million of the grant will go to centers serving migrant and seasonal farm workers, saying patients will not be asked about immigration status. The centers will offer primary care to all residents who come in.

On his campaign website, Wilson wrote: “It is inevitable that they will serve illegal aliens. The president specifically promised the American people that ‘Obamacare’ would not cover those who are here illegally. He misled all of us.”

The Department of Health and Human Services shot back, saying the patients still must pay for care.

“By statute, health centers are required to provide primary health care to all residents of the health center’s service area without regard for ability to pay,” spokesman Chris Stenrud wrote in an email to Fox. “However, health centers do not provide free care. All health center patients are expected to contribute to the cost of their care.”

Ohio cleared to opt out of Affordable Health Care Act

Ohio Health-Care cleared for the fall ballot.

Ohio wants to send a message to the Obama administration "Keep health care between doctors and patients, and keep bureaucrats out of it." Voters in Ohio will get the chance to decide whether Ohio can opt out of the national health care overhaul after the state's top election official said Tuesday that opponents of the federal law have enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 8 ballot. Ohio has 427,000 valid signatures. They had submitted more than 546,000 and needed roughly 358,000 of them validated to make it on to the ballot.

The measure would change the Ohio Constitution to prohibit any federal, state or local law from forcing Ohio residents, employers or health care providers to participate in a health care system. It also would prevent the state from enacting a Massachusetts-style health care program, where the state requires a minimum level of insurance coverage.

If passed, the amendment would not apply to any law or rule in effect before March 19, 2010, so as not to prohibit Ohioans for participating in programs such as Medicare.

A coalition of tea party organizations, small government advocates and religious groups gathered the signatures to get the health care measure on the ballot and now plan to mount a statewide campaign in support of it.

The coalition has more than 35,000 volunteers, an "army of grass roots support," ready to mobilize to raise money to turn out voters in November's election, said Jeff Longstreth, campaign manager for Ohioans for Healthcare Freedom, a group that played a large role in the petitions.

Obamacare is a job killer, it has been a disaster for the country and the economy, and the bulk of it doesn't even kick in until 2014.