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Why do you hate our ally Great Britain?
...by the irony of the Olympics Opening Ceremony's tribute to Britain's National Health System ending with the PRIVATE Nanny, Mary Poppins, swooping in with her umbrella to save the day?
Americans baffled by 'left-wing tribute' to free healthcare during Opening Ceremonies (and what was with those flying Mary Poppinses defeating Lord Voldemort?)
I see.Last night's spectacular $42million, the brainchild of Oscar-winning British director Danny Boyle, included a segment where dozens of skipping nurses and children in pajamas leaping acrobatically on massive hospital beds, with a large 'NHS' displayed.
It was a celebration of Britain's national health service, which has provided free taxpayer-funded health care to everyone in the country since its foundation after the Second World War.
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Before the ceremony, the Slumdog Millionaire director defended his decision to feature the NHS prominently in the show. He told reporters that he chose to feature it because ‘everyone is aware of how important the NHS is to everybody in this country.’
He continued: ‘One of the core values of our society is that it doesn’t matter who you are, you will get treated the same in terms of health care.’
The Commentator executive editor Raheem Kassam was one of many who took to social media to voice their opinions, and tweeted: 'Anyone else realise it wasn't the NHS who tended well to the kids in the Opening Ceremony, it was private nanny, Mary Poppins!'
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Others simply thought the idea of children, nurses, and nannies in an elaborate choreographed dance was simply bizarre.
That doesn't bode well for Her Majesty the Queen or Boyles...
Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year
Where does Daniel Boyle receive his health care?NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday.
Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.
He claimed there was often a lack of clear evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway, a method of looking after terminally ill patients that is used in hospitals across the country.
It is designed to come into force when doctors believe it is impossible for a patient to recover and death is imminent.
It can include withdrawal of treatment – including the provision of water and nourishment by tube – and on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours.
Why do you hate our ally Great Britain?
Private, for profit, free marekt US doctors, and medical errors, kill 100K+ in USA every year.
Any complaints from Yoni?
no, USA is his USA, right or wrong (it ain't never wrong except when Dems do it, then it ain't his USA but unAmerican Dems ing up)
If we connect the dots, it all goes back to Chik-fil-a
Not to mention they spend less per capita on healthcare than the private system we have here, while providing access to care to every citizen...
So yoni believes that huge puppets based on fictional British children's book villains are the biggest health threat today.
whats your position on chitty chitty bang bang?
That's easy to do when you're just letting them die, on purpose.
lol death panels
Actually, the UK doctor's describe euthanasia.
US doctors do that all the time whether they call it that or not.
Really? There's a policy of euthanasia? Where?
Did I say there was a policy?
Well, come to think of it now, there is -- largely unspoken and variable because Americans are to weak to actually consider these things out in the open.
As opposed to letting them die because they can't afford it? Some compromise...
Death panels!
Do you really not understand that the Mary Poppins were part of the tribute to British children's literature that played out in the dreams of the children and had nothing to do with illness.
I am sure if British doctors have to face a 100-foot Voldemort they will give Julie Andrews a call.
They are called insurance underwriting standards and risk assessment.
I'm always struck that the people of developed nations with public health care seem more often than not to be really proud of it, as though they're completely oblivious to what an awful and damn near cataclysmic system it is. It's a good thing Americans know better.
What jingoistic bull .
Ask those foreigners if they'd like to swap their national health care system for America's for-profit system. And ask them if they'd like to pay for all those profits.
Le sigh...
Other than guns and god, is there anything you don't criticize yoni?
Oh, I criticize those plenty -- well, not God but, religion and, not guns but, poor craftsmanship and idiot CHL carriers.
Why?
For someone who loves using facts and logic I love how you blindly just believe in God without any support or logic to back it up. Because there is none.
Thanks for the compliment. And, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. ;o)
Atheism is another thread, by the way.
Oh for heaven's sake, Yoni!
The opening ceremony celebrated things England was/is proud of,including their agrarian heritage, the industrial revolution, pop music,great literature, movie shows, national health care, and Children's fairy tales.
You (and some other political jerk) decide that the only thing worth noting is a celebration of their national health service as though it was a political statement directed at us.
What narcissism!
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