NHS Death Panels?!

If you don't know where this blog is heading, then please read the following article first:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Obama39s-first-prescription-for-American.5022595.jp

Now, as you can see Barack Obama has begun a very serious plan to introduce a NHS style healthcare system into the United States. Ok? Yeah? So what? Exactly, so what. The NHS is a great British institution. True it has it's flaws but that's why it's the free option. Sure, if you can afford it then go private but the NHS entitles that everyone in the country can receive free healthcare with no questions asked.

But this has thrown a shit-storm through America's right wing media, especially Fox News, who claim that this is socialism. Oh No! Socialism! You mean Americans will have to start helping each other instead of themselves. Well, we can't have that. And so Fox and various other journalists have begun to use the NHS as a whipping boy. Beating it to a pulp with horror stories (That aren't that bad) and the gruesome and horrific Death Panels... Hang on, Death Panels? What?

Yes, Sarah Palin (remember her) has come out to claim that Obama's NHS will include 'death panels' where they decide who is worth saving based on their level of health.

The Sarah Palin speech is here:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434

Of course, this 'death panel' phrase was quickly debunked as horseshit by pretty much everyone with a frontal lobe. However the Republican's are enjoying the theme of this 'who is worthy of life?' angle that they are playing it at every chance they get. Recently, Stephen Hawking was used as an example as someone would most likely be left to die under the NHS. Wait? Sorry again? Hawkers!

Yep, once again some Republican supporters show themselves of the grand idiots of the world by stating that the NHS would have seen Stephen Hawking as 'worthless' due to his lack of health. Despite not realising that Hawkers was in fact born, raised and still resides in the UK. While in which time he has received treatment from the NHS throughout the entire span of his illness claiming 'I wouldn't be here if not for the NHS'.

Although the original quote has been removed from it's document, it can still be found here:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/11/anti-health-care-loo.html

And Hawking's reaction piece is here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205953/NHS-branded-evil-Orwellian-high-level-US-politicians.html

But it doesn't stop there. The right-wing US media are so adamant about winning this PR war they have brought in one of our own. Daniel Hannan is the MEP for South East England under the Conservatives and has been spreading like cancer across all the American news networks to talk about the travesty that is the NHS. But who exactly is he? Well, essentially he is a shit-stirrer. His entire political career has been one long moan. The kind of politician I hate. One that criticises the state of the status quo but offers nothing by way of a solution. And that's precisely what he is now doing in the States. Bad mouthing the NHS with feeble stories about waiting hours to be seen by a doctor (suck it up, pussback!) and has been quoted by calling the NHS 'a mistake for 60 years'. But as David Cameron, leader of the Conservatives, is leading his party in the next election by promising a re-vamp of the NHS, it seems Hannan can't even make his point of view clear to his own peers.

Videos of this prick gallivanting around US TV giving us his party trick by shitting through his mouth can be found below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foOxAeHuhAQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spI4Aetab3w

I'm not really sure how to end this blog because I know that tomorrow there will be more news coming out of the States about the NHS which aren't true. And I think it's disgusting what they are doing to the integrity of the workers. The doctors and nurses at NHS hospitals work longer hours and are paid less to those in the US. But are saving lives everyday because they feel it's what they should do, not to ask them if they can afford the treatment. So whatever you're opinions are on the NHS, I'm sure you wouldn't change it for the world.