The stupid it burns us

[lexin]

Via lyorn and her friend 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.

Comments

[legionseagle]

This is not helping my current view that all of the US should be torched back to bedrock (It's a long story involving people trying to superimpose US preoccupations on Torchwood - no, the BBC did not make Ianto die on 11 September unless in addition to all the screwed up ways in which the Day 5 plan wasn't going to work you seriously suppose the UK Government had decided arbitrarily to bring everyone into school on a Saturday and expected them to comply and co-opting 2000plus people's death in a terrorist outrage to make you feel Super Specially Aggrieved is sick as well as being egocentric).