In what has to be the silliest argument against Universal Health Care, local kid Jerry Bowyer (remember him? the shredder of rabbis?) sees a terror threat in medical bureaucracies on Fox "News":
Let me see if I can sum up Jerry's argument. Since a universal health care program would require more doctors (really?), this country would have to import doctors to fill that need and at least some of these doctors would come from "Islamist" countries. And since "they" know how to "game the system" and stay relatively anonymous within large bureaucracies, there's a danger that if this nation adopts a universal health care system, it will be more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, like the ones we just saw in the UK.
Good Ole Jerry. Still crazy after all these years.
UPDATE: Jerry made it onto Keith Olbermann's "Worst Persons in the World" for July 6th. Unfortunately someone should have told Sir Keith that Jerry's last name is pronounced "BOY-yer" not "BOW-yer."
oh that is soooo stupid. he gets paid for crap like this????
ReplyDeleteI was waiting for someone on the right to link this to universal health care. Sadly, nothing surprises me anymore.
ReplyDeleteC'mon, Dayvoe. Our local whacko is the very personification of sanity compared to his masters in the Bush Administration and elsewhere in the Peoples Republic of Wingnuttia. Remember these delusions?
ReplyDelete-- "the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
Dubya
-- "We found the weapons of mass destruction"
Dubya
-- "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
Dubya
-- "We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."
Big Dick
-- "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
Big Dick
-- "We know where they [WMDs] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad..."
Rummy
-- "It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
Rummy
-- "We'll be greeted with flowers and candy"
Wolfie
-- [There was] "nothing about the threat of attack in the U.S." [in the Presidential Daily Briefing the President received on August 6th, 2001 entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.'
Condi
-- Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations.
Condi
-- "the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this [9/11] happen'."
Pat Robertson
Of course, one might argue that these are not all examples of fevered apocalyptic visions. Some may simply be lies. Others may be mere indications of incompetence.
I'm glad to see he still styles his hair after Captain Kangaroo. He's a spitting image of him.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why those "cradle to grave" socialized universal health care contries like Sweeden, Norway,and Denmark aren't overrrun with islamofacists? WHat an inane argument.
ReplyDeleteYour premis isn't correct:
ReplyDeleteSince a universal health care program would require more doctors (really?),
There is a present doctor shortage in the US. It is modest in some part. It is major in other parts of the US. However, there is a wild shortage of Doctors in other parts of the world that have socialized medicine.
We just visited New Zealand. They have a more socialized medical system. They have HUGE doctor shortages. Massive problems.
Supply and demand issues can easily be confounded with healthcare delivery when there are doctor shortages.
Socialized medicine might mean fewer doctors for the US too.
The chatter about the bombs and the other crap goes off the map for me to deal with.
I do think that we have problems with the way we educate our youth and train our doctors and treat ourselves with respect to wellness. Failing schools and systems can't deliver the necessary knowledge and expectations to meet the 'demand' for doctors, engineers, and so on.
The overhaul needs an approach that is multi-dimensional, well beyond the elimination of health insurance companies, for example.