Reply #7: Rationing! [View All]

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Why shouldn't everyone get Tamiflu who wants it and can afford it?! It's rationing, I tells ya! Socialized medicine! Booga, booga, booga, booga! PH34R!!

{/nutzoid screamer}

The above is part of the "debate" currently going happening on the issue of health care reform. Idiotic statements of half-baked and poorly understood ideas are given equal or even preferential access to the conversation. Reasoned explanations of public health policy - researched, tested and successful - go by the wayside in favor of the nutzoid screamers.

Now, why would popular television and cable outlets, which derive a substantial portion of their advertising revenue from the makers of products you can't buy, lend credence to the idiots and discount the professionals? Why, why, why?

Ka-ching!

Oh yeah, that's it.