Friction and Harmony

Anyone who wonders what government run healthcare will be like needs only look at the Veterans Administration. My Pop died in the care of VA hospitals. Not to say that they caused his death – he had terminal lung cancer – but they sure didn’t make coping with the cancer any easier. In fact, they were so overcome by inefficiency and communication problems, he was at times receiving inappropriate doses of chemotherapy and ended up with a brain condition caused by the chemotherapy that they affectionately referred to as “chemo brain.”

Now they’re scaring the hell out of our defenders of freedom in an “oops” that affected more than 1,200 soldiers in their care. Seems a “coding error” in their system caused a letter to alert these soldiers and their families that they were afflicted with ALS, or “Lou Gherig’s Disease,” a severe and debilitating neurological disease that ravages the nervous system and causes a gradual, systemic loss of control of nearly all voluntary muscle control.

Thank God they are not so afflicted – ALS is a terrible disease that takes a great toll on a family.

NO THANKS to the pencil pushers in gummint offices that caused the scare in the first place. This is a fine example of the “blanket” procedures and policies of a government run, bureaucratic healthcare system.

This has to be one of the most unfortunate ad placements – as the Lockerbie Bomber climbs the airline stairs to his own freedom in Libya, where he was received with a heroes welcome:

Lockerbie Bomber escapes justice.

This sorry fuck murdered 270 people.  Supposedly, he was released because he’s “terminally ill with prostate cancer”.  Like I give a fuck? He should have been left to rot in his cell.

I hope he dies very, very painfully.

Holy crap, this guy scares the hell out of me… Because I can see it all happening if we stay the course we’re currently running:

Soylent Green is terminally ill taxpayers!

What happens when you introduce a conflict of interest (cost cutting bureaucracy) into healthcare decision making?  Life under Marxism has no intrinsic value.  Either you are a productive citizen, beneficial to the State, or you are a burden -  a tumor to be excised from society.  Die already!

Hat tip: Political Vindication.

Geez, a few years ago this was a joke.  Now I’m thinking THIS would have been a better idea than giving a $Trillion to the government to enact broad-based $ocialism:

Might have killed two birds with one Trillion-dollar stone, anyway.  Naaah.