'Evil and Orwellian' – America's right turns its fire on NHS

The National Health Service has become the butt of increasingly outlandish political attacks in the US as Republicans and conservative campaigners rail against Britain's "socialist" system as part of a tussle to defeat Barack Obama's proposals for broader government involvement in healthcare. Full Story »

Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Technorati, The Guardian (US)

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Christoph Wienands
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by Christoph Wienands - Aug. 12, 2009

The story looks at the current Healthcare craze/scare from the perspective of UK, whose healthcare system serves mostly as a negative example in ads and information campaigns. However, the article does not truly examine whether the UK's claims of misinformation about its NHS are correct or not, but rather.

Well, even though UK's claims of misinformation are not further examined for correctness, I believe they are likely to be true and that interest goups in the US are running misinformation campaigns based on fear. And a sad anekdote from my personal life... years ago I ws working in a small satellite office of a dental company. One day a woman walks in and asks whether we were selling crown cement (we didn't). Her crown fell out, and she neither had dental insurance nor the money for the repair by a dentist. Previous attempts with SUPER GLUE failed, and now she wanted to try crown cement herself. Sean Hannity, America has been using super glue for way too long.

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