Courtesy of Dennis Miller, be sure to check out video by Steven Crowder.
Move to the 8-minute mark for a great few minutes of highlights — government healthcare employees recommending to the patients on hidden camera that they pay for private healthcare because it’s faster and more efficient.
Two to three years to get a family doctor in Canada? “You’re young so you have time,” the nurse adds.
Because another patient had to wait so long for treatment for circulation problems the doctors amputated both legs, when initial diagnosis called for just one. By the time the treatment took place the disease had spread.
Sure, some of this is contrived, but that’s part of the point, eh: Conservatives should use the same carefully edited media skills that liberals such as Michael Moore employ.
In the words of the Wall Street Journal, “But who would you rather have making decisions about whether a treatment is worth the price — the combination of you, your doctor and a private insurer, or a government board [such as in the U.K.] that cuts everyone off at $22,000?”