Greetings readers,
Just a short blog post today as have suddenly become very busy with other commitments! So above lies a YouTube clip of Dan Hannan, a conservative MEP, on Fox News in April this year bemoaning the state of the NHS. Watching this for the first time has infuriated me to say the least: this gutless man has seemingly sided with the ignorant, scare-mongering, conservative, Republican political right in the States with a shameless and blatant attack on our beloved NHS. And to top it all, he chooses the disgustingly right-wing news network, Fox News, to promulgate his utter shite to the American people. Not only that, but he has the gumption to openly criticise our public health policy, our doctors and NICE whilst sycophantically brown-nosing the American public over their "superior" health care system. I dare you to come back here and repeat your earlier comments Dan Hannan! You are not even worthy of being sentenced to one of our so called "Death Panels"...
Unfortunately it seems that the majority of the American public do not understand the complexities of a health care system in which one in six of their own people do not possess medical health insurance. To make matters worse, Republicans like Sarah Palin are scare-mongering ordinary American citizens into imagining dystopian scenarios upon adopting "Obama-care", such as the sentencing of her own child with Down's Syndrome to "Death Panels". I have never heard such hyperbolic and shameful drivel in my entire life! Nonetheless I applaud you Sarah Palin, for adding the personal touch; am sure they taught you that in Politics 101. Obama was definitely right: you are a dumb "lipstick on a pig".
What spurred me to write this article was actually reading the BBC's recent article on how anti-reform campaigners in the US have been directing criticisms across the Atlantic at the NHS. Indeed it appears our very own Dan Hannan has been busy spouting his drivel on the Fox News airwaves once again. How very kind of him. I think perhaps the least we could do to repay our debt to him would be to strip him of his citizenship, post, assets and ship him back to America. No wait, he'd probably end up running for Congress.
Well, good riddance to you, we certainly don't need your sort round these parts.
If you would like to read a well balanced, informative blog post surrounding the ongoing health care debate written by an actual American, you could do worse than checking out Dr Steven Novella's recent blog entry (Dr Novella is an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine as well as president and co-founder of the New England Skeptical Society). Here he presents a reasoned argument for the most effective way of utilising resources from a clinician's perspective. Notice how I didn't use the word "rationing" once....
Anyway, will try and update soon with some more coherent thoughts. It's late in the day and my brain seems to have disintegrated somewhat.
Currently listening to Passion Pit's EP, "Chunk of Change". Wouldn't describe it as particularly amazing but it is fairly good as far as twee, synth heavy, indie-electro-pop bands go. Their track "Sleepyhead" grabbed my attention straight away, as I recognised it from the Fiver/Five USA adverts that have been on recently. Hot Chip are definitely better.
Thanks for reading,
F.
2 comments:
This is a "short post"? Its particularly ironic that Dan Hannan should be blasting the inefficiency of a state owned medical system given that he is currently drawing a massive salary as a British representative in the world's most expensive and least efficient legislature. If you care so much about the NHS, Dan, why don't you come back and run as an MP so you can do something about it? Err, oh, of course you can't because something like 80% of the British public are rabidly loyal to the NHS and if they saw what you were saying about it on Fox News they would have you publicly flogged. What a knob. Shows how far down the bottom of the pond Fox have to go to find someone willing to slag the NHS though...
Well, my post was intended to be short but as you can evidently see, I got on my high horse and had a rant about Daniel Hannan! Treacherous Judas that he is.
Didn't know the European parliament was the world's most expensive and inefficient legislature. Very interesting indeed.
Glad you're in agreement with my post. But then again, I can't imagine many Britains that wouldn't get just a little bit defensive about the NHS as you point out...
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