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It beats Bushs tax paid torture chambers and failed war.
how is this ok
In australia we’ve had universal health care for 35 yrs and we’re not in recession. Dummkopfs.
Australian health care is 62.5% public and 37.5% public. This hardly makes it universal. The US is not far behind as government spending for health care is at 50%. If health care reform is not based on accepting the fact of scarcity, we will increase the level of tragedy in the years ahead. ObamaCare has already made promises it cannot keep. We will be adding bureaucratic costs. We will use bureaucratic denials and queues to ration care. We will extend the use of price controls in a futile effort to stretch government resources, with the result that we will reduce supply and suppress innovation.
Additionally, health status or level of health is not the same as access to health care. In fact, access to treatment does not necessarily lead to health, as the condition has in most instances has already occurred. In fact, federal “reform” often hurts the public health system. Both public health and health care experts have criticized Medicare and Medicaid, enacted by Congress in 1965, for changing the focus of health care practitioners from prevention to treatment. Infectious disease mortality rates rose 22 percent in the 1980s (even after discounting for AIDS deaths), despite rising public and private spending on health insurance and medical care. In 1988, the Institute of Medicine warned of a deteriorating public health system. Inadequate vaccine supplies, such as the recent shortages of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine or influenza vaccines, are at least in part the result of federal attempts to control the production and distribution of the vaccines.
Requiring all Americans purchase health insurance, which ObamaCare requires, and is likely unconstitutional, would not address the underlying socio-economic issues at the root of most public health problems. Income, social capital, employment status, and other factors have a stronger impact on population health than access to health care. The less educated smoke in higher amounts, have worse diets, have higher rates of obesity, higher rates of diabetes, exercise less, are more exposed to violence, low weight and pre-term infants, etc. People with more education and higher incomes are better able to avoid health risks. Poor children have higher levels of blood lead precisely because they live in older dwellings more likely to contain lead-based paint.
Proponents of government control contend that “rationing” is inevitable. Either the government will do it. Or someone else, particularly insurance companies, will do it. But there’s a big difference between government deciding how to distribute limited goods and services for others and individuals deciding how to balance competing goods and services for themselves.
Today employers have too much control over individual insurance plans. The answer is not to transfer that control to politicians, but to return it to patients. People need a medical system that allows them to make basic health care decisions, especially what kind of insurance to buy and what kind of coverage to choose.
Hey, I have an awesome idea. Let’s blame Barack for everything Bush did wrong. This comic should be removed. Comparing Hitler to Obama is idiotic. He isn’t asking for the genocide of millions of “inferiors” or trying to create a superior race.
Are you also a moron and incapable of understanding sarcasm?
It’s sarcasm, dumbass.
I find it highly ironic that one of the Nazi party’s first reforms was universal health care, a point apparently lost on the author of this.
However, Hitler’s economic reforms were generally seen at the time, and still even now, as positive for Germany.
Grow up and get over yourself please. This cartoon is ridiculous. I mean I knew Republicans had no common sense and no ability to do their own research on issues but this takes it a step further
Are you immune to sarcasm and humor?
Wow. The inability of some people to identify sarcasm astounds me. Also, it’s pretty funny.
What did captain kirk say “double dumbass to you” Of course it’s scarcasm, but literature of this content is always going to evoke impassioned comment and comment we’re all entitled to.
The problem with this is that it is supposed to be sarcasm and humor, but it is just not that funny…….so it doesn’t work
my god, how dumb are you people – the comic is mocking comparisons between obama and hitler, not promoting them. i guess it’s true that americans have no sense of irony. sheesh…
Okay this is sarcastic, but I know alot of people who would take this rather seriously, as a comparision to Obama being Hitler. It’s a good comic and most political comics leave both sides of the coin open to enjoyment. Sort of stephen colbert eske. If you have any sense you will realize how sarcastic he is, yet some people dont quite “get it”. So Kudos, and good job causing some controversy.
This is so fucking offensive. I’m from England and though American Healthcare has no influence on me, the fact that this cartoonist would juxtapose Obama with Hitler? The logic in Hitler wanting Healthcare makes no sense–so the main “humor” comes from the idea of Hitler’s brain in Obama. There are some lines one should not cross. This is completely illogical for the sake of a humor that’s not even there, and it is completely, undeniable offensive to me.
you obviously have a limited knowledge of why this comparison may be drawn. essentially a republican splinter group compared obama to hilter in a public poster campaign http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/7888741/Barack-Obama-compared-to-Hitler-and-Lenin-in-Tea-Party-billboard.html . just google hitler healthcare to see the amount of people comparing obama to hitler. evidently this comic is lambasting that comparison.