I am not a doctor, never played one on TV, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express!

I am not a doctor, hell, I am not even smart enough to play one on TV, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once. Apparently, that makes me qualified to play doctor to my own health needs under the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain.

The British government has come up with a brilliant plan to save a whole lot of money in the NHS budget. If you have a health problem, just take care of it yourself!

That is right, No consulting a doctor or going to a hospital, instead patients in Britain’s socialized, national run healthcare system will be encouraged to carry out “self-care.” Oh, but not to worry…this is just until they can figure out a way to curb the spending.

It’s really all right; the NHS is just trying to get rid of those not so important trips to the doctor and emergency room. You know, like people dealing with arthritis, asthma and heart failure! Yeah, it says heart failure. These types of patience will be treating themselves with self-care.

Some of the self-care patients will have to apply includes using equipment placed in the home to monitor heart activity, blood pressure and lung capacity and then relay that information to doctors by phone or computer link. Patience will also administer their own drugs and other treatments to manage pain.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown claims this is an improvement that will allow patients to “play a far more active role in managing their own condition.” How about allowing patients to take a far more active roll of their healthcare by privatizing the system and letting market forces determine where people can get the best care for the best price. Now that is what I call self-care.

Oh yeah, The British Department of Health calls their situation an “exciting opportunity.”

I wonder how the citizens of Great Britain feel about their “exciting opportunity” to be forced into a broken universal health care system and told you’re on your own.

Just the thought of government controlled universal healthcare gives me a headache…

"Hilary Care" for the Kids! Aren't you excited!

Bilary Clinton wants to expand her “Hilary Care” to America’s poor children. Free health care for all the poor children. Kind of gives you a happy feeling inside doesn’t it?

So who qualifies for “Hilary Care” as a "poor kid"?

71% of all American children in families of four making up to about $80,000 a year would classify as "poor." That's 400% above the poverty level. Wow ... must be nice to be a poor American in Hillary's world! Until you realize the quality of free health care is just what you pay for. A system funded by taxpayers with no market competition, yeah that should work, just about as well as the government education system…. I wonder if they will call it public health care as well. You know to get that nasty government word out of the equation.

This is Hillary's "step by step" approach, to expanding “Hilary Care.” One "poor" child at a time, the government will become the great "provider."

This goes back to the question I asked on the Fourth of July. Do you want freedom or security? Health care is your responsibility, not the governments. Who in their right mind is willing to hand over their freedom to take care of their own health to the federal government? I know I am not.

The government has no business deciding where I will be medically treated, and by whom. I have the right to make that decision. You have the right to make that decision. Enjoy it while you can though, cause if liberals ever get their way, in the future you will have public health care districts. It will be just like the public school districts. Oh, won’t that be great. I can hardly wait for that.

Canada has a National Health Care system. Remember in 1994 when Hilary was saying we should create ours off their model? Well it is a two to three year wait for a hip replacement in Canada now days. Oh yeah, I am so excited for “Hilary Care” .... and it's the United States that's "Sicko."