Benjamin Franklin:

"When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic."

JOHN ADAMS, President of the US 1797-1801

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Congress "Healthcare Reform" debates is a "Death Panel" for Americans of all ages

Let us take a look for instance to the pair of the well known threats:





The current US HealthCare system constantly rises the Survival Rates:



Meanwhile the totally different situation exists in the countries, where government run the national Healthcare system. Below please compare Age-Specific Prostate Cancer Mortality Rates - Trend Comparison - "US vs. Canada", 1969-1999:

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Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians:

- Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the US,
- Prostate cancer in Canada is 184 percent higher.

Source: http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html

The same results of comparison can be seen for the "US vs. Europe":

For men (all sites combined), 47.3% of Europeans survived 5 years, compared to 66.3% of Americans. For women, the contrast was 55.8% vs. 62.9%.

The male survival difference was much greater than the female primarily because of the very large difference in survival rates from prostate cancer (see the above data).

... innovations in diagnosis and treatment of prostate and breast cancer were associated with faster declines in mortality in the US than in OECD (Europe) countries.

Source: http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=psc_working_papers

© 2006 Gallup, Inc.

Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.

An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as [government] economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful.

The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain.

The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain.


Source: http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html

See also how existing US Healthcare system is working for American children:





President Obama has pledged to get a "Healthcare reform" bill passed this year ... So, please, take a look to the above stats again and make your math - how many Americans of all age will die during next 5 years, if "Obamacare" reform will pass this year?


Some more Stats about Healthcare ...

Source: http://www.gallup.com/video/121940/No-Groundswell-Support-Healthcare-Reform.aspx

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PS. The below dialogue is a fragment from WSJ discussion:

Leslie Herrick: This illustrates a fear I have regarding government run health care.

If you cannot rely on the government to apply the law towards justice, what recourse do you have when government itself makes life-and-death decisions about your health care or access to it?

And what part will your political affiliations play in the distribution of health care resources?
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Krishnan Chittur: If Insurance companies do something egregious, you can call an attorney and see what your options are.

If (no, when) the Government does something egregious, there is nothing (absolutely nothing) you can do. They make the rules - they are players and referees all at the same time.

"Government" is made up of citizens, yes - but they are a different breed of humans - normal humans who get transformed into something unrecognizable when they grab that public power.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments

How to Read and Understand the Polls:

The Gallup Polls above graph is related to Obama Job Approval by "national adults, aged 18 and older" (including illegal immigrants and other people, who do not have rights to vote).

So, it'll be interesting to compare the above Gallup data with Rasmussen Report Polls, that counts "likely voters" only:

The polls data of August 18, 2009:
- Gallup Poll Obama Job Approval / Disappoval: 52 - 42 = +10%
- Rasmussen Obama Job Approval / Disappoval: 49 -50 = - 1%

Democrats Radically Changed Their Mind in 2008/2009

concerning the "Big Government" threat to country:





Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/117739/Big-Gov-Viewed-Greater-Threat-Big-Business.aspx





Source: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/52_worry_government_will_do_too_much_to_fix_economy

"... the Best Health Care System the World Has Ever Known"

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that President Barack Obama's proposed health care plan is the "first step in destroying the best health care system the world has ever known".

Below please find some more stats in regards to the existing US Health Care System:



© 2006 Gallup, Inc.





© 2006 Gallup, Inc.

Rasmussen Poll Questions about the possible cost of Obama's "Healthcare Reform" can be considered as an IQ-test:

Data source: "National Survey of Likely Voters Conducted August 9-10, 2009 By Rasmussen Reports"