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Moonbattery Wreaks Havoc on Australian Ambulance Service

From Down Under, a hint of what what's in store for medicine once it becomes "free" under socialism:

Melbourne's $16 million-a-year ambulance dispatch system is forcing paramedics to race through streets to treat nose bleeds, apply sticking plaster and tend to compulsive hand-washers.
Ambulance officers say a computer dispatch program that fails to distinguish between a heart attack and a stubbed toe sends them on thousands of unnecessary high-speed runs each year.
Ambulances have been sent to people with in-grown toenails and sprained ankles — at $860 a trip.Emergency calls have included:

A PATIENT whose lip had been cut on a pizza crust.
A MAN with a paper cut.
A BOY with a grazed knee.
When people don't have to pay for medical care, they'll be calling 911 to have aspirin delivered for their hangovers.

But Australia hasn't collapsed into communism yet. Why are half of the highest priority emergency calls for insignificant injuries?

Their union says ambulances are sent to most jobs to eliminate the risk of litigation.
Laments Ambulance Employees Union secretary Steve McGhie:

It is an American system based on (fear of) being sued. It's causing huge concerns for paramedics. It will get worse before it gets better.
Congratulations, John Edwards. Your kind has changed the world.

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Originally Posted by LANMaster

Moonbattery Wreaks Havoc on Australian Ambulance Service




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This illustrates the single biggest problem with government healthcare--when its free it overutilized. There has got to be some financial disincentive in whatever system we have to go to the doctor unless necessary.

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Expert Confirms Michael Moore "Just Repeating Government Propaganda" on Cuban Healthcare

Originally Posted by Moonbattery

In Sicko, Michael Moore's latest broadside against America, the obese propagandist dragged some people involved in the rescue effort at Ground Zero down to Cuba in an exploitative attempt to convince us that its wretched socialized health care system is better than ours. In doing so, he violated the sanctions that have been in place against Cuba for decades.

Technically, even Tinseltown's hard-left royalty is subject to American law, so the treasury department investigated Moore's farcical pilgrimage to the communist slave state. According to Cuba's state-controlled media, this confirms America's "imperial philosophy of censorship."

Imagine if someone were suicidal enough to make movies insulting his own country and its leaders in Cuba. Then we'd learn something about censorship.

But Moore could bellow as loudly down there as he does up here, since he's "just repeating Cuban government propaganda," as confirmed by Katherine Hirschfeld, who has done extensive research on doctors in Cuba, and even survived a stay in a Cuban hospital.



This scene from a Cuban hospital didn't make it into Sicko.

Some additional pics from the Hillary/Moore healthcare model;








Other photos were simply too disgusting to show.