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Jewish World Review June 7, 2011 / 5 Sivan, 5771 As Britain Goes, So Goes America? By Cal Thomas
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For several years, the British media have been full of horror stories about failures in the National Health Service (NHS). "Thousands of Elderly at Risk in Care Crisis" screamed the front-page headline in the Times of "Specialist NHS Clinics Are 20 Times More Likely to Botch Hip Operations," reported The Daily Mail in 2009. It gets worse. "Standards of Care in Some Wards Would Shame a Third World Country," reported the Telegraph that same year, along with "NHS Spends Thousands on Climate Change Handbook" and "Patients More Likely to Go Hungry Than Prisoners." The Telegraph now reports that the "terminally ill" will be asked by their doctors how they would like to die and to write it down so the NHS will know. Will government then assist them to stop the care meter from running? Death panels, anyone? Last November The Daily Mail reported, "
This meltdown in the NHS is approaching a crisis moment. Last week, The Telegraph ran a story headlined "Reform or Die, Lansley Tells NHS." Health Secretary In an interview with the newspaper, Lansley said the "financial crisis" in the NHS "would see annual health spending double to £230 billion ( And then there is the disappearance of A dysfunctional British immigration system has allowed 256,000 asylum-seekers over the past 20 years to be granted "amnesty," according to the Daily Mail. "74,500 cases have been put in storage because the applicants simply cannot be found." Add to these concerns the huge number of Muslim immigrants who display no desire to be assimilated into British life, the high abortion rate among the British, and the increasing secularization of culture and you have predictors of where America may be headed if it does not turn back on these attitudes and behavior patterns. The spread of infection from an E. coli outbreak in the UK does not appear as threatening to the nation's future as the numerous infections of another kind. As
JWR contributor Cal Thomas is co-author with Bob Beckel, a liberal Democratic Party strategist, of "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America". Comment by clicking here.
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