| Almost as soon as my poison pen pushed through my last post, I stumbled across this bit of world-class bufoonery that, really, so out-classes our own homegrown attempts to “just make stuff up” that anything listed in my last post looks like the work of middle-school dropouts tanked on cough syrup.
The bufoonery, certain to make this year’s finals for Monumental Achievements in Just Making Stuff Up, was found on the Investor’s Business Daily editorial page — not exactly a scion of nonpartisan objectivity — in opposition to the Obama healthcare plan.
When the editorial doesn’t indulge in misconceptions and outright lies (i.e. the healthcare plan mandates forced euthenasia counseling for seniors), it coughs up this gem of unintentionally hilarious stupidity:
“The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures
out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility analysis based on the ‘quality adjusted life year.’
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the
National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps,
is essentially worthless.”
Which causes me to ask: are these people venally dishonest or complete fools? I mean, did no one on the IBD editorial staff not know that Stephen Hawking was born and continues to reside in the UK (and has recently been hospitalized), an almost life-long beneficiary of that health system? As blogger Jay Bookman pointed out, “Hawking is, you might say, living, breathing proof that these people are first-class fools.”
Look, if you’re going to oppose healthcare, cap and trade, Anything Obama or PAWSD fees, keeping the argument honest is the best first step for negotiating what’s best for all of us, as Archuleta county residents and U.S. citizens. Cloaking blind ideology in lies and deception only serves to make the arguer look puerile, a damned fool.
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