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This is hilarious.

From the RNC:

Government Run Health Care Alert

Twelve hundred people have lost their lives at an 'elite' British hospital due to an obsession with government targets.

Up to 1,200 people lost their lives needlessly because Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust put government targets and cost-cutting ahead of patient care.

But none of the doctors, nurses and managers who failed them has suffered any formal sanction.

Patients in this hospital were subjected to deplorable conditions.

The inquiry found that:

• Patients were left unwashed in their own filth for up to a month as nurses ignored their requests to use the toilet or change their sheets;

• Four members of one family. including a new-born baby girl...

Conditions at this government run health care hospital were so bad, families were forced to wash their own soiled sheets.

The Francis report said staff numbers were allowed to fall 'dangerously low', causing nurses to neglect the most basic care. It said: 'Requests for assistance to use a bedpan or to get to and from the toilet were not responded to.

'Some families were left to take soiled sheets home to wash or to change beds when this should have been undertaken by the hospital and its staff.' Food and drink were left out of reach, forcing patients to drink water from flower vases.

Why anyone would want to mimic this system in any way is beyond comprehension. Progressives like to point to government run health care in Canada and Europe as examples, but the America has the best health care in the world. When Canadian Premier Danny Williams' heart was on the line, he chose to forgo Canada's socialist health care system and pay out of pocket to come to the US for heart surgery. Here is Williams response to the criticism:

"This was my heart, my choice and my health. I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."

Liberals decry the US health care system as horrible, but that is a lie.

How is the government run option working out in Great Britain?

The answer is "not very well," if you are an expectant mother trying to have a baby. There are not enough maternity beds and many mothers in labor are being turned away. Some are having their babies in lobbies and public toilets. Is this the change you want America?

The Daily Mail reported:

Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.

The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.

Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.

Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:

* 63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;
* 117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;
* 115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;
* 399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.

Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.

Babies were born in offices, lifts, toilets and a caravan, according to the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008 from 117 out of 147 trusts which provide maternity services.

Sen. Joe Lieberman Refuses to Back "government-run" Health Care Plan

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is refusing to support a "government-run" Health care. Lieberman and a couple of centrist Democrats lack of support offs hope "Obamacare" will be stopped in the Senate. The Hill's Briefing Room reported:

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said this weekend that he opposes a public option plan for consumers in a healthcare reform plan to emerge from the Senate.

"I don't favor a public option," Lieberman told Bloomberg News in an interview broadcast this weekend. And I don't favor a public option because I think there's plenty of competition in the private insurance market."

Lieberman's decision joins several other centrist Democrats' decision to have publicly refused to back the plan, derided as a "government-run" plan by Republicans.

Centrist Democrats like Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.) have also been skittish to back the public option, which is favored by liberal Democrats and the Obama administration. If Republicans are able to pick off enough Democrats, they may be able to muster enough votes to filibuster any legislation that includes the public option.