Sarah Palin to become Fox News commentator

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Every system of healthcare involves some form of rationing. The American system involves a rationing on the basis of wealth.

And my experience with the Canadian System of Socialized Medicine - albeit in the best province of the federation - has been rather good. Earlier on some of the checkup wait-times were lengthy, but as the NDP government invested more in healthcare that seemed to improve. I've been diagnosed with - and treated for - Type I Diabetes, Asthma and Celiac Disease.

In terms of rationing and prioritizing, I do recall being bumped ahead of others with more serious physical injuries in a car accident due to potential complications my Juvenile Diabetes may cause.

Criticising Fox News is not cool, but it is standing up for decent journalism. It is literally part of the British Media Studies curriculum (at least in my college) to learn about media bais and especially Fox New's bais. Though knowing Palin's stance on nationalised healthcare, she'd probably think that us Brits are a load of communist crazies anyway.



I don't think that a "media assassination" is necessary, as Palin is doing a pretty good job at assassinating herself by talking.

I mean, she actually said that "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgement of their 'level of productivity in society', whether they are worthy of health care." That just shows how little she knows about nationalised healthcare.

Other right-wingers even suggested that "Professor Stephen Hawking wouldn't have survived under the NHS", despite the fact that Stephen Hawking is British and he himself said that "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS,".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... cians.html

The question isn't about whether or not Hawking, an accomplished theoretical physicist who had already graduated Oxford and started attending Trinity Hall before evidence of ALS presented itself, would receive treatment; instead the question is whether or not someone of less accomplishment would.

While an article on Sweden and not Britian, the Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons notes the following story in their Spring 2008 publication titled, Lessons from Sweden’s Universal Health System: Tales from the Health-care Crypt:



While currently it's possible an insurance company in the US may refuse the payment of certain medications, we are still fortunate enough to not have the abhorrent denial of another person (doctor or otherwise) to pay for medication on our behalf from their own pocket.

Well someone of less accomplishment will have alot more chance of getting treatment from the NHS, considering that like Master_Pedant said, America's rationing system is based on wealth.

Do you even realize what you just said ? Thanks for proving my point. Your educational institution is teaching you about the "right" and "wrong" news sources. Do you even remotely comprehend how atrocious of a violation that is ?

You sir, have been brainwashed. Do you know how I know ? Because our Soviet education system was very similar.

In 1991 it was painful for me to get un-brainwashed. A shocking experience, really. Learning that 50% of what I was taught in school had a horrible bias. Some of it (such as USSR's alleged "complete innocence" in WWII) I still can't fully get over today.

One day it will happen to you as well. When the light hits your eyes for the first time, the eyes hurt.



I've heard this before. However my opinions are not those of "right wing radicals". They're merely of what used to be conservatives. You know, people who value Borders, Language, Culture, smaller government. If you were to actually listen to aforementioned Fox News, or even Sarah Palin, she's such a person. She's not a monster, she's what I consider to be a normal person with family values, strong moral convinctions.

She's not overly "smart" (Stalin was very smart too, look where it got him), but she's uncorrupt and has a clear conscience. Now the people who harassed her, threatened her life, and burned down her church - liberals - I don't have many kind words about them.

The reason she's popular is because the "conservatives" we got in the government now are anything but, and people sense that, no matter what the talking heads say on the Communist News Network.

The liberals we got in the government today... let's just say..., in 1950s many of them would be labeled "commie pinko bastards", because that's what they are. They're traitors to the very foundations on which the country was built. The so-called conservatives too. Bush was an embarassment, and Obama is an even bigger embarassment.

Now, there's a lot of "right wing radicals" who act as clowns, walk around with swastikas painted on Obama's face, who look and talk like trailer trash and have IQ below 50. They're a convenient label to use on all conservatives, a nice big fat target of a stereotype.



Well, I guess since I condescend on the likes of you (calling you brainwashed morons), you can condescend on me. It's fair. No, I'm not being sarcastic. It's okay.

It's funny that you assume that people who lived (not merely VISITED) in two countries have less perspective than people who lived in just one. Quite the opposite, actually.

Immigrants see the truth, because they have perspective. Chinese and Russian immigrants see exactly who you elected here.

Statism is the overarching system of belief out of which all great dictators sprout.

Obama is a Statist. He believes the State should control the citizen's lives. Most of who voted for him were uninformed. The rest were Statists as well. Given your nickname I find it double ironic how you remain non-reactive to Obama's unprecedented in frequency television appearances, to the point where he started to annoy the actual networks he appeared on.

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Now... as I find myself outnumbered, I simply have neither the time nor the nerves to keep up this exchange. I've done what I could in the past to support my arguments, but the chain of liberals on most Internet forums never ends. I've never experienced the part where it just ends and people say "Okay, I understand your opinions and accept whatever sources you provided". So I'm not going to waste another week of my life trading potshots with a dozen people.

If you feel particularly strongly about an issue, feel free to PM me. This will at least filter out those of you too lazy to PM. I'm outta here.

P.S. As parting word, I recommend y'all read this book. It may just undo the damage Berkeley has done to your brain.

I don't watch Fox news, they are all a bunch of puppets and ventriloquist's dummies, so I could care less if Sarah Palin becomes a commentator.

Also based on wealth; however, in this case, not the wealth of their own (which they may have the opportunity to change), but on the "wealth" of a government--deciding what is and is not too expensive along with what does and does not constitute equal treatment.

In the case I cited, the same person who didn't have the money still didn't get the drugs the doctor felt necessary. Unfortunately, even when a third party offered to pay for the drugs, the patient still didn't get the drugs.

There's a big difference when one needs something and simply can't afford it and when the government intervenes, preventing an opportunity for you to receive it.

I reckon here in Canada, you have access to the private and public... <.< So hum...yeah... In some instances of emergencies, i even think you can use your health care card for private treatment. (Would need to check =.= )

Having lived in "left wing" dictature make you biased. You assume that every drive toward left wing is a drive toward dictature, which is not the case.Right wing too can lead to dictature. Right now in USA the right wing is closer to dictature that the left wing. (The "Patriot act" is a good example) But because of your biased views you can't see it.

Also, in Canada the ambulances comes in 5 minutes and anesthesia is frequentlty used.

Don't feed the troll.

There is no such thing as "decent journalism" in america, at least, not anymore. It's all propaganda, be it Fox's republican Propaganda, MSNBC's Democratic Propaganda, or CNN's... Honestly I find CNN too hard to watch to even discern what type of propaganda they're pushing.