July 20, 2009

U.S. health care: 100% FAIL — Mark Steyn

Conservative health care "expert" Mark Steyn sez:
If you look on yourself as being part of a government health system of millions of people, getting a bedsore and dying in hideous pain is no big deal in the scheme of things.

But I look on myself as being part of the Mark Steyn health system. So if I get a bedsore and die, as far as I'm concerned, that's a 100% systemic failure.
Oh really.
According to a report from Harvard Medical School, several thousand Americans die each year from complications associated with pressure sores.
Including Christopher Reeve. And this guy.

Or is it only when Mark Steyn himself gets a bedsore and dies.

h/t Roger Ailes.
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7 comments:

  1. Clutch12:02 PM, July 20, 2009

    Mark Steyn is to the secular wing of neo-con nation what Tim LaHaye is to its fundamentalist wing: too mediocre to be noteworthy for anything save cranking out nutbaggery for the dupes.

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  2. illusory tenant12:10 PM, July 20, 2009

    Makes you wonder about those getting bedsores and dying in hideous pain who have no health care at all (that is, tens of millions of Americans, last I heard). But yeah, no big deal in Canada.

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  3. Clutch1:51 PM, July 20, 2009

    Oh, they'll just reach for their cheque book, dontcha know!

    Steyn must wonder what sort of mass delusion gripped Canada back in the 1960s (gosh, back when the Greatest Generation was in charge, and society was all Golden Age and meritocracy too, eh?), when the country elected to move from the private medical care utopia to a single payer hell. If only he'd been around back then, to explain that sometimes people would still die under public health care, and to explain the "just reach for your cheque book" theory.

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  4. illusory tenant9:42 PM, July 20, 2009

    "Steyn must wonder what sort of mass delusion gripped Canada back in the 1960s ..."

    Trudeau, what else.

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  5. Clutch6:07 AM, July 21, 2009

    LOL. It's striking just what a vapidity Steyn is when he tries to discuss anything specific. It's only when he gave up on local and national issues and brought his cherrypick-n-smear to such vague generalities as the eeeevils of Mooslims that his star really rose among the neocon lunkheads and bigots of the world.

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  6. illusory tenant6:19 AM, July 21, 2009

    Few tears were shed for his emigration, I expect.

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  7. illusory tenant6:51 AM, July 21, 2009

    And even those were all Robert Fulford's.

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