This is What Happens When Goverment Controls Healthcare

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http://politicker.com/2013/01/bloomberg-slaps-down-criticism-of-painkiller-restriction-plan/

Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city officials unveiled a new initiative to limit supplies of prescription painkillers in the city’s emergency rooms as a way to combat what they described as a growing addiction problem in the region. Some critics, as documented by The New York Times, however, felt the move would unnecessarily hurt poor and uninsured patients who use emergency rooms as their primary care doctor. Needless to say, Mr. Bloomberg was not swayed by this line of argument.

“The city hospitals we control, so … we’re going to do it and we’re urging all of the other hospitals to do it, voluntary guidelines. Somebody said, oh, somebody wrote, ‘Oh then maybe there won’t be enough painkillers for the poor who use the emergency rooms as their primary care doctor,’” the mayor said on his weekly radio show with John Gambling. “Number one, there’s no evidence of that. Number two, supposing it is really true, so you didn’t get enough painkillers and you did have to suffer a little bit. The other side of the coin is people are dying and there’s nothing perfect … There’s nothing that you can possibly do where somebody isn’t going to suffer, and it’s always the same group [claiming], ‘Everybody is heartless.’ Come on, this is a very big problem.”

In the same interview, Mr. Bloomberg stressed the initiative’s simple rationale is to prevent extra pills from piling up in the cabinets of New Yorkers who no longer need them, where they can pose a health risk if they’re abused.

“We talk about drugs, heroin and crack and marijuana, this is one of the big outbursts–and it’s a lot worse around the country than it is here. It’s kids and adults getting painkillers and using them for entertainment purposes, or whatever field of purposes, as opposed to what they are designed for,” he explained. “If you break a leg, you’re going to be in pain, nothing wrong with getting something that reduces the pain. But if you get 20 days worth of pills and you only need them three days, there’s 17 days sitting there. Invariably some of the kids are going to find them, or you’re going to take them and get you addicted.”

Mr. Bloomberg also argued the number of pain pills currently being prescribed had even contributed to an uptick in violent crimes outside of pharmacies from robbers looking to steal the drugs.

“You see there’s a lot more hold-ups of pharmacies, people getting held up as they walk out of pharmacies,” he explained. “What are they all about? They’re not trying to steal your shaving cream or toothpaste at the point of a gun. They want these drugs.”

[billvon 3,109]

I thought after he banned 16+ ounce sodas all these medical problems would go away.

[rushmc 23]

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I thought after he banned 16+ ounce sodas all these medical problems would go away.

He is like a pissed off grandpa on steroids

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[lawrocket 3]

Good job, Mayor Bloomberg, for showing that not only do you know everything about diet and nutrition but that you also are qualified to tell doctors how to do their jobs. That medical degree you have sure is coming in handy.

I’ve got a headache. Pass the Tylenol…

Nope! That can cause liver damage!

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[rushmc 23]

This too

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/31/epas-illegal-human-experiments-could-break-nurembe/?page=all

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[ShcShc11 0]

...or you can go back to the old system where America pays 19% of its GDP on healthcare then complain that ''taxes are too high''

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...or you can go back to the old system where America pays 19% of its GDP on healthcare then complain that ''taxes are too high''

This is just the beginning. You and your left wing buddies have no idea what you have unleashed on this country. It's not even worth debating it. We will just wait and the remind you we told you so.

[ShcShc11 0]

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...or you can go back to the old system where America pays 19% of its GDP on healthcare then complain that ''taxes are too high''

This is just the beginning. You and your left wing buddies have no idea what you have unleashed on this country. It's not even worth debating it. We will just wait and the remind you we told you so.

lol. You can look at Massachusetts' record now instead of predicting the usual doom & gloom.
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I don't understand how people were/are so compliant on paying 19% GDP to healthcare (double than any other Western countries) while the insurance stated goals (see the F/S mission statements) is to ''minimize expenditures''. Just another way of saying thank you while wiping your chin.

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State Governments aren't the Feds. Most of what you have been sold, is just the usual lies, yet you continue to believe them. You will see.

How's that Social Security lockbox working out for you?