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Consider This! | Conservative political commentary in 10 minutes or less


Episode 143: UK NHS SOS, and the Washington Redskins (Non-)Controversy

June 06, 2016

“We can fight for ourselves, thank you.”
If ObamaCare is trying to emulate the European style of health care, perhaps we should look at those systems to see how well they’re doing in providing quality health care. It’s easy to give access to it, but how good is it?
And it may be that the controversy over the Washington Redskins football team name might be going out with a whimper. That is, if the Social Justice Warriors fighting for the cause will listen to those whom they are ostensibly fighting for. (But hold not thy breath.)
Mentioned links:
NHS: UK now has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world, according to OECD report
Poll: Native Americans’ attitudes toward the Washington Redskins team name
I’m dropping my protest of Washington’s football team name
Activists criticize recent poll on offensiveness of Redskins’ name

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Show transcript
People who are for ObamaCare have often pointed to countries in Europe where coverage is universal and suggested we need to be more like them. ObamaCare was, allegedly, a good way to do that. So how is the health care there?
A report of Britain’s National Health Service paints a picture that perhaps those advocates may want to hide in the closet. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – the OECD – their health care system ranks right up there with those stalwarts of medical mastery, Poland and Chile. While access to care is “generally good”,