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Seriously! Those damn Brits. That Kevorkian fella' was one of theirs too, I'd bet.
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Damed socialized medicine and it's evil mass killing doctors.
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I can blame this one guy, but I don't have time to blame the kazillions upon kazillions that are giving your idol a bad name.
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A poorly run system, that's how. Remember, outside the military, "government-run" = "inefficient".
Also, while I'm not familiar with the Brittish socialized medical system, it's at least possible that people don't get a choice of doctors at all.
But Fo2's right. The system is not to blame that those people are dead, the person who killed them is. Not to say that the system shouldn't be changed, if such a change could prevent further such incidents.
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I hereby decree that Omega is forbidden to participate in any discussion involving the United Kingdom, or any of its constituent parts, until such time as he demonstrates an ability to correctly spell "Britain" and any derivatives thereof.
So let it be written. So let it be done.
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Now, I may not be a statistical genius like some of you fellows, but in my crazy mind, one example does not prove anything. Since the newspapers aren't filled with stories of doctors killing their patients, Shipman is a "statistical anomoly", or a "fluke". At least to my crazy socialised mind.
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Oh, I got the point Fo2, I decided to be sarcastic instead of adding anything of import.
Besides, what can one really say.
"Bad doctor for killing people?" "First do no harm, or baring that, take out as many as you can is not the oath."
Oh, as an aside, "Remember, outside the military, 'government-run' = 'inefficient' is farking Hi-larious.
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I've got an even better idea. How about you ban Omega altogether until he stops being an utter fucking retard who doesn't know shit about anything he talks about, and who lives his life by the goddamn bible, for Christ's sake?
Evils of socialist medicine, my ass. In the United Kingdom, you need to go to a doctor, you choose which practise you go to. But fear not, healthinsuranceophiles, there are still private doctors you pay to go see if you really want to. How many of said doctors kill or don't kill their patients, I can't say - no statistics available. But I have no doubt whatsoever that if all of us in the UK paid our doctors directly, they wouldn't be rude enough to kill us. It's obviously the strain of working for a socialist system that drives them to these terrible crimes.
Oh, by the way - abortion's 100% legal here too.
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