Bad Doctor By Selwyn Duke

In his captivating book The Screwtape Letters, the great
philosopher C.S. Lewis noted that change is meant to be a means to an
end and that it is only the destroyers of civilization who try to
convince us that it is an end unto itself.

It is an alluring mantra, that change chant. It helped elect Bill
Clinton in 1992 and, four terms later, Barack Obama. The idea is that
things couldn't possibly be worse than they are now, so the unknown
just must be better than the status quo. Ah, collect the frying pans —
fire all the way around.  

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8 responses to “Yet another Call to Overhaul Healthcare . . . This Time in Canada”

  1. Shaun Avatar

    Excellent article Selwyn. Is is very fascinating to see the American public stand up and get vocal about issues such as healthcare. Kind of reminds me of the amnesty days of 2007 when the common man blitzed their representation with millions of calls and faxes. Hopefully, socialized medicine goes down the same nasty toilet bowl as its amnesty predecessors.
    Shaun
    UCA

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  2. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    As an avid admirer of the writings, logic and otherwise brilliance of Selwyn Duke, I am writing in protest to his stated opinions here.
    To wit, I am gravely disappointed that Selwyn has fallen for the diversionary tactic of our now-Marxist government in debating the minutae of “health care deform”.
    The Marxist intention of this “debate” is to distract us from its true agenda: control of our lives.
    Make no mistake about it. Barry Soteoro (his legal name) aka Barack Hussein Obama II (his given name at birth)is a Marxist. His mother was a Marxist, indoctrinted in her high school in Mercer Island, Washington, of which at least two of her adminstrators gleefully boast).
    This tragic soul was abandoned first by his father, a hopeless drunk who died tragicallly in a car accident as the result of his drunken stupor; but also by his mother, Stanley Anne Dunham, who chased dreams of utopia the planet-wide.
    The result of this incrogruent union is the hopelessly confused figure that we have elected as our President. Our commander-in-chierf. Our presider over over our Rule of LaW: our Constitution.
    May God Almighty help us all.

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  3. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    well after Philips confused call to save us all from all things marxist, perhaps it might be an idea to look at some of the systems you are so very afraid of. You appear to have a major problem with insurance companies refusing to cover people with existing conditions, in addition prior to medicaid most of your old people were uninsured because the oh so kind companies couldn’t see any profit in covering the crumblies.
    I pay 1% of my income in healthcare tax, in the past 15 years over some very well paid years when i was CEO for a national company and some very low income years when i was finishing my seond book my crohnically ill daighter recieved first class treatment at our best hospitals and with our best specialists. When I was well paid my chemist bills were higher, when i was poor they were free. the drugs were the same. If this is scary marxism, I’m surprised the USSR didn’t win.

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  4. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    Dear Yoyo,
    Your factually devoid suggestion that Marxism and Socialism isn’t scary omits a very blatant fact: the hundreds of millions of innocent lives that were murdered, tortured and imprisoned by monsters such as Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Castro-Gueverra, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il II.
    How can you possibly be in favor of and defend such horror?

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  5. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    This “health care bill” is meerly a modern day attempt at the Cloward Piven strategy. Our system is not broken! What is broken is our legal system (torts and malpractice suits). The cost of defensive medicine is nutso. Of the cost of the average baby delivery $2000 goes to malpractice insurance. That is nuts! But don’t expect BHO to give a hoot about that because he is bought and paid for by trial lawyers. An interesting note- the trial lawyers “donated” (I use that term loosley) 115 times as much to the democrats as they did republicans. Trial lawyers and organized crime errrr labor unions run ruffshot over the dems.

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  6. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    Walt, you are right the “defensive” process of medicine is costing us all heaps. However, even reforming the legal system in relation to this will not bring down the bills by much. For a start how do you ensure that any savings will be passed on to consumers? In the late 90’s I worked with divisions of General practice, during this period insurance rates for obstetricians jumped 400% primarily for conditions that probably were not practitioner related such as cerebal palsy. Finally, due to the rush of doctors away from delivering babies, the government is looking at a universal insurance policy for birth defects. The “communist” option (as you would describe it) means that the very small number of children with catastrophic birth defects get some decent covereage and the parents and doctors dont spend years and years feeding lawyers.

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  7. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    Fool, I dont think these things are communist at all. I am trying to show you how cruel you are to deny treatment to sick children because YOU think it might be communist to do so.

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  8. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    yoyo,
    It sounds like we agree on one of the major reasons our heath care system is so expensive. In my eyes the cost of defensive medicine is the biggest problem we face today. Shouldn’t we start there? Why overhaul the part of they system that works and ignore the part that is crushing it? If a man in dying of blood loss would it be prudent to address the thousand leaches on his skin instead of treating his erectile dysfunction? This is why I am so doubtful of the current proposal. I am very suspicious of their motives on this one, in spite of the poster children they rush out to draw sympathy from the simple minded.

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