Mocking the Tea Party Movement

[Mick Jagger]

This is a very funny video mocking the Tea Party nut jobbers. Very well done.

YouTube - "We're Number 37" - Paul Hipp

 

[shagdrum]

The Jagger-bot rears his ugly head again!!!

What's it been...3, 6 months?

 

[cadillackman]

That was ghey.

 

[T_Man]

That was good!

And in case you were wondering.... #38 is Slovenia.

World Health Care Rankings

 

[fossten]

Your link doesn't rank treatment. That's the difference between the US and other countries. We provide treatment. That's why people fly here from all over the world to get treated.

Furthermore, much of your link's data is based on life expectancy, which is a flawed method vis-a-vis correlation/causation problems. Just because a nation has older citizens doesn't mean the healthcare treatment is better. It might have fewer violent deaths, for example.

 

[Mick Jagger]

people fly here from all over the world to get treated.

Health tourism once meant convalescing from tuberculosis at an Alpine sanatorium, or taking the waters at a French spa. Today, the ill travel to take advantage of cheaper private healthcare, innovative treatments, or to bypass ethical regulations. This is where they go:

France: La Louviere, Lille, specialises in cataract operations, knee and hip replacements. It caters for the British market, providing "single rooms with . . . English-language newspapers and a la carte menu in English". Typical meal: coquilles St Jacques, filet mignon and Provencal tomatoes. Costs: cataract operations - £1,000 at la Louviere and £2,000 for private treatment in the UK; hip replacement - £4,000 in France or £7,600 UK private; knee replacement - £3,000 at la Louviere or £8,500 UK private.

--Get your bypass operation on the IHS, by Alice O Keeffe and Katharine Hibbert, The New Statesman, 2003

 

[hrmwrm]

Tea Party nut jobbers.

i always thought they were tea baggers?