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As for the US having foreign doctors, well, pretty much every country does, with the exception of maybe Saudi Arabia.
Conservative bloggers try to link Michael Moore to UK terror attempts
Conservative bloggers try to link Michael Moore to UK terror attempts
...several conservative bloggers attempted to draw a connection between filmmaker Michael Moore and his film Sicko with the bombers,...
A number of right wing bloggers seized on the information and connected it to Moore's new film Sicko.
"'Would these be Doctors who work for the U.K. health care system so lavishly praised by Michael Moore? ...Perhaps they are not Jihadists at all but simply men driven insane by their employer? Maybe Michael Moore has spawned an entirely new breed of suicide bomber — the alienated UK health care worker'"
Fox News: Universal health care breeds terrorists
Fox News: Universal health care breeds terrorists
Today on Fox News’s Your World With Neil Cavuto, National Review Online columnist Jerry Bowyer attacked... He argued that national health care systems are breeding grounds for terrorists because they are “bureaucratic.”
Wait times are incredibly short.
The British prescription for health care continues to be typified by the phrase "Take A Seat". There is a remarkable complacency among a population which readily accepts the notorious British National Health Service (HNS) waiting lists for necessary hospital treatment. As the 20th century ended there were 1.12 million ever-suffering souls patiently waiting for needed hospitalization. This appears to be the price for "free care. One usually gets what one pays for. There is no doubt but that disabled Americans would be a lot more impatient regarding their desire for prompt quality service than our British cousins.
The British Health Service continues to announce that the official list of those waiting for care is shrinking. This is simply not so; what has happened is that waiting lists to get on waiting lists have been created. After waiting to be seen by a family physician a British patient incapacitated with a spine problem may have to linger for more than a year to see a specialist. It is up to the specialist to determine the urgency of the case and to order any specialized tests. After the wait for the tests and the results (often a process of months) the next wait, of about a year, for surgery begins. Are things getting better? As of May, 2001 all indications were that the British National Health Service continued to "languish from bureaucracy, demoralization and capricious medical fads" (clearly not a formula for success). ( Lawlor S: Britian's Nationalized Medicine Needs Doctoring, The Wall Street Journal Europe, May 3, 2001).
Wages are very high. The ACTUAL reason for the high amount of imports is because we are not TRAINING enough doctors.
Originally posted by Gools
No problem in my book... as long as everybody recognizes him for what he is and takes it into consideration now and into the future.
Originally posted by Flyer
Clearly the original poster has an agenda and is trying to spin the facts to further that.
Originally posted by Gools
It came from behind the steel trap door of the small closed minds of the extreme right wing in that crazy backward country called the United States.
Role of Foreign Doctors Draws Scrutiny in Inquiry
By MARK LANDLER and SARAH LYALL
Published: July 4, 2007
LONDON, July 4 — Britain will conduct an urgent review of its methods for recruiting foreign doctors, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced today, after it emerged that all eight of the people detained in the aftermath of the failed car bombings here last week are from the medical profession.
Speaking in Parliament in his first appearance at the prime minister’s weekly question time, Mr. Brown said the government would also expand its worldwide “watch list” of potential terrorists.
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It may also prompt a debate over whether Britain’s health system should have tightened its regulations for hiring foreign doctors before last year, when it was possible for doctors to move here and practice without a work permit, provided they established their medical credentials.
www.nytimes.com...
UK: Recruitment Standards for Foreign Doctors Under Review
July 4th, 2007
“There’s no explanation at this stage why they’re doctors, other than that it’s a perfect cover,” a police official said, on condition of anonymity. “It seems at odds with their profession, which is to look after people.“
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Yes. It certainly is unsettling to think that someone who is supposed to be dedicated to healing would blithely enter into a terrorist pact to harm as many people as possible. Of course, the botched car bombings in the UK this week are still under investigation. Some of the eight people arrested might be released without charges.
In the meantime, this isn’t a good time for foreign-born Muslim doctors to seek placement in the UK — or in the USA. Unfortunately, the UK recruits so many foreign doctors due to a shortage of native-born doctors. Fewer foreign doctors available to treat patients means longer waits for treatment.
proggiemuslima.wordpress.com...
Originally posted by jsobecky
I beg your pardon, Gools? I resent very much the name-calling and insults that you have directed at me.
Originally posted by jsobecky
I'm very surprised that someone of a moderator status would insult an entire country this way
And what does this mean?
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Recogniize me for what I am? What might that be?
Your words are unacceptable for all members of ATS, but especially a moderator.
Originally posted by Gools
Originally posted by jsobecky
I'm very surprised that someone of a moderator status would insult an entire country this way
Yeah... and I've never read the word "Canuckistan" or "Soviet Canada" anywhere on ATS .
I insulted the United States? OMG he's a mod too!!!! Get the tar and feathers!
Get a grip.
Originally posted by Gools
Look, as far as I'm concerned, you got caught red handed promoting the Fox News/extreme right wing agenda on ATS and I called you on it.
Me? I think that the entire notion that somehow the idea that "socialised medicine = terrorist" no matter how slim or remote or flimsy the connection is simply and utterly preposterous. Anyone wanting to go down that road shows evidence of a certain unhealthy mindset in my opinion.
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Anyone wanting to go down that road shows evidence of a certain unhealthy mindset in my opinion.