This is the most ignorant piece of swill I have received in awhile--so I thought I would pass it

[Horse with no Name]

along. :puke:
You better read this. We are headed this way if Obama is not stopped. Note the Daschle statement. Note also that he and all other Congressmen are exempt from this arrangement.


Send it on!!


> Several years ago, my dear friend Geoff Faircloug, a
> Brit living in Leyland , England , had an ear ache. the doctor determined
> that it was a boil in the ear. After a week of awful pain the doctor agreed to
> lance the boil. Geoff, 77 years old never woke from the "elective
> surgery". the boil ruptured, poisoning his entire system. Had he been 20 and a
> "productive worker" antibiotics and an aggressive treatment course would have
> been persued. But at 77 the "cost out weight the benifit"....TO THE
> STATE RUN MEDICAL SYSTEM....but
> not to me, his wife, his two children or 6 grandchildren!!
> I just received this bit of infor had had to forward it....
>
> SENIOR DEATH
> WARRANTS:
>>
>>
>> The actress Natasha Richardson died after falling skiing in Canada .
>> It took eight hours to drive her to a hospital.
>> If Canada had our healthcare she might be alive today.
>> In the United States , we have medical evacuation
> helicopters that would have gotten her to the hospital in 30
> minutes.
>>
>> In England anyone over 59 cannot receive heart repairs or stents or bypass
>> because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed. >
>
>>
>> Obama wants to have a healthcare system just like Canada 's and England 's.
>>
>> . If Obama's plans in other areas
>> don't scare you, this should!>
>>
>> Please do not let Obama sign senior death warrants!!
>>
>>
>> Most of you know by now that the Senateversion (at least) of the "stimulus"
>> Bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior
>> citizens.
>> The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom
>> Daschle was credited today by Bloomberg with the following statement:
>>
>> Bloomberg: Daschle says"health-care reform will not be pain free.
> Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of
>> treating them."
>>
>> If this does not sufficiently raise your ire,
>> just remember that our esteemed Senators and Congressmen have their own
>> healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay
> which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not
> subject to this new law if it passes.
>>
>> Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out.
>> Talk it up at the grassroots level.
>>
>> We have an election coming up in one year and nine months, and we have the
>> ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction
>> the Obama administration and it allies have begun and in the interim, we
can make their lives miserable. Lets do this!

[predfan]

1. If memory serves Ms. Richardson was walking and talking for an hour after her fall,

took ill and went to a nearby hospital.....then transferred to ICU at a larger hospital.

It seems the ski slopes she was on wasn't in a downtown area......usually aren't.

[Horse with no Name]

3. Not only that but she also refused the initial care

It was not until she was symptomatic (worse possible scenario) that she sought help.

[Johonny]

2. The Canadian and the English don't have the same system

so there's a problem just starting to understand this pile of crap

[Turbineguy]

4. This man?

http://lookback.merseyblogs.co.uk/2007/03/dad-will-be-missed-read-geoff.html

[predfan]

6. Probably a different set of Fairclougs........they're thicker than flies in the UK.

[Kansas Wyatt]

5. And in 20... No 10 years after we would have health care like Canada or the U.K.

The people passing this around would be the very first in line DEMANDING their God given RIGHT to Government Health Care. Just like these pigs demand their Social Security and Medicare now.

Oh Hell, it probably wouldn't even take them a few years to think of it as their God given RIGHT.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. 1st example is absolute bullshit - even in THIS country, antibiotics

cost only pennies. There is no way I can believe that any cost analysis would determine that this man's life was not worth $2. It would have been the first, simplest treatment. What killed him was probably just the fact that he was 77 and undergoing surgery, nothing more.

[MindPilot]

9. You are assuming Mr. Geoff Faircloug actually existed. n/t

[DCKit]

12. Why deal with facts when you can just make up shit?

It's not as if the foaming-at-the-mouth FReepers know how to fact-check or remember anything that doesn't jibe with their world view for more than thirty seconds.

[LeftinOH]

8. "cost out weight the benifit" -RW emails are really difficult to read. n/t

[LeftishBrit]

10. Rubbish

It's conceivable that Mr. Fairclough had an incompetent doctor. They exist everywhere. But it seems more likely that this story is imaginary - it would have been all over the news here.

It is NOT true that people over 59 can't have heart operations on the NHS in England! I know several older people who have had them.

There actually is some deleterious influence on the NHS by Thatcherite cost-cutters - just as there is a deleterious influence on American health-care, even of insured people, by cost-cutting insurance companies. But this letter is just a pack of blatant lies!!!

[TexasProgresive]

11. I suggest that you do what I did

go to www.snopes.com hit contact and report it as a new rumor. It would be good if more them one person does this to get it some attention.