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lexin ([personal profile] lexin) wrote2009-08-11 06:06 pm

The stupid it burns us

Via [personal profile] lyorn and her friend [profile] bellatrys I discovered this.

It's an attempt at a salvo in the argument currently going on in the US about healthcare or "socialised medicine" as the right wingers term it. But can there be any more of a 'I have just shot myself in the foot' argument than this one:
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.


Unless of course there's another famous scientist called Stephen Hawking that they haven't told us about. Which seems unlikely.

I suppose someone must have told them, but it's still right up there - Investor's Business Daily seem content to have their arse hanging out all over the net.

ETA: Oho, they found themselves looking stupid and took it down. However, we have the evidence.

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