With the recent passing of Apple’s driving force genius Steve Jobs, it doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist to figure out just how his life would have ended had Обамаcare been fully implemented.
For those out there who do need that Rocket Scientist, here’s a little hint: the iPad which I’m writing this post on…the same device those Wallbaggers are e-mailing Mommy and/or Daddy for more money so they can continue their anti-Capitalist tantrum…would be delayed significantly, or may have never seen the light of day.
Think about that when you read the following from John C. Goodman over at Townhall.com:
In most places in the world today a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer would be considered a death sentence. Aggressive treatment of the condition would be considered a poor use of medical resources — one involving considerable expense in return for only a few extra months of life. Perhaps Jobs’ cancer was of a rare variety that could be removed by surgery.
Even so, almost nowhere else in the world would a pancreatic cancer survivor be considered an appropriate candidate for a liver transplant. In Jobs’ case, the transplant apparently bought him only about two more years of life. In no other developed country would a patient get a liver transplant in order to live two more years.
In Britain, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is charged with deciding which treatments the British NHS will pay for and which it will not. NICE considers a treatment cost-effective only if the cost per quality adjusted life year (QALY) is £20,000 or less (about $31,000). Since the cost of a liver transplant plus two years of follow-up care are greater than that number, in Britain Jobs would not have made the cut.
In other words, even the enormous contributions Jobs gave to the world would not have counted in his favor; Обамаcare’s Death Panels would have chopped him just as easily as the poor newborn baby with, for example, cerebral palsy or underdeveloped lungs.
To Президент Обама and the Filthy Communists who follow him, who “theorize” that the world’s economic, scientific, and medical potential is finite. You will be relegated to the ash heap of History!
Tags: Apple, John C Goodman, NHS, NICE, Steve Jobs
