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“The N.H.S. is not perfect,” the rally’s organizer, Bruce Kent, told reporters, “but it is being really badly abused in the U.S.A., and on utterly unreasonable grounds.”

Mr. Kent said the health service saved his life in 2001, when he was operated on for prostate cancer. If he had had to pay for his treatment, he said, the cost “would probably have put me on the streets.”

Arguments against the health service by Republicans overlook the fact that while it costs half as much per person as the American system costs, “it delivers results which are on some plausible measures actually superior,” The Economist said in a stern editorial. “And i...

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From the article:

“The N.H.S. is not perfect,” the rally’s organizer, Bruce Kent, told reporters, “but it is being really badly abused in the U.S.A., and on utterly unreasonable grounds.”

Mr. Kent said the health service saved his life in 2001, when he was operated on for prostate cancer. If he had had to pay for his treatment, he said, the cost “would probably have put me on the streets.”

Arguments against the health service by Republicans overlook the fact that while it costs half as much per person as the American system costs, “it delivers results which are on some plausible measures actually superior,” The Economist said in a stern editorial. “And it does this while avoiding the disgrace that so shames America, of leaving around 46 million people, some 15 percent of its population, without any form of health insurance.”

There are times when, viewed from afar, American political discourse looks like nothing more than a huge brawl conducted by noisy, ill-informed polemicists. This is one of them, as Britain found last week when the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was, bizarrely, drawn into the raucous debate over the health care proposals of President Obama and Congress.

Mr. Hawking, 67, has Lou Gehrig’s disease, is paralyzed, speaks through a voice synthesizer and needs a great deal of medical attention. He also lives in Britain. This makes him a spectacularly unfortunate choice to pick as an example of the evils of the National Health Service, which has provided free health care — t...

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There are times when, viewed from afar, American political discourse looks like nothing more than a huge brawl conducted by noisy, ill-informed polemicists. This is one of them, as Britain found last week when the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was, bizarrely, drawn into the raucous debate over the health care proposals of President Obama and Congress.

Mr. Hawking, 67, has Lou Gehrig’s disease, is paralyzed, speaks through a voice synthesizer and needs a great deal of medical attention. He also lives in Britain. This makes him a spectacularly unfortunate choice to pick as an example of the evils of the National Health Service, which has provided free health care — to him, and to millions of other people here — for 61 years.

But that is what Investor’s Business Daily did on Aug. 3, in an editorial opposing Mr. Obama’s proposals by accusing him of wanting to institute an N.H.S.-style system in America. Mr. Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K.,” the newspaper declared, because the health service would declare his life “essentially worthless.”

The paper printed a correction, and Mr. Hawking issued a statement saying that, actually, the health service had helped keep him alive.

As an American who now lives in Britain, occasionally writes about the health service, and uses public and private medicine here (as well as back home, occasionally), I have seen firsthand the arguments from all sides. Certainly, as someone who in the 1980s paid $333 to have an emergency room doctor at Georgetown University Hospital remove a piece of toilet paper from my ear after I had unsuccessfully tried to use it as an earplug, I applaud a system that is free.

Normn8or, what happened on your clip was the pointing out of how ridiculous it was because it was illogical. No profanity was used, no taunts were used.

What happened was that you could not face rational analysis.

Once you started into your ridiculously childish "Libturd" comments, I compared you to a 4th grader (with all apologies to the vastly more mature 4th graders).

So like many of the other conservatives around here you ban someone because you are incapable of supporting your stances.

If you can't stand the fire get out of the kitchen.

Remember you can always come by any of my clips. I am not afraid to defend my stance. As always, I will never be un-American and try to silence t...

Normn8or, what happened on your clip was the pointing out of how ridiculous it was because it was illogical. No profanity was used, no taunts were used.

What happened was that you could not face rational analysis.

Once you started into your ridiculously childish "Libturd" comments, I compared you to a 4th grader (with all apologies to the vastly more mature 4th graders).

So like many of the other conservatives around here you ban someone because you are incapable of supporting your stances.

If you can't stand the fire get out of the kitchen.

Remember you can always come by any of my clips. I am not afraid to defend my stance. As always, I will never be un-American and try to silence the voice of differing opinions (Clip On knows this full well).