As a followup to yesterday’s post, you may want to watch the following YouTube video:

It is highly recommended that you peruse the website that created the video, FreeMarketCure.com.

For those who are unconvinced that the free market is the solution to healthcare in this country, and who still think that socialized medicine is the way to go, perhaps you should take a look at how well England’s socialized healthcare system is working out for them:

Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.

Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. [emphasis added]

Sorry, grandma. No pacemaker for you. And you need a bypass? Should have thought of that about 30 pounds ago. What’s that? “Thirty pounds overweight isn’t obese” you say? Well it depends on what the government’s definition of “obese” is. And to ensure your kids don’t pick up any of your bad eating habits, we’re now going to start monitoring their lunches:

School lunchboxes could soon be monitored by dinner ladies to ensure children are eating healthy meals, ministers said.

Under the Government’s obesity strategy, all schools will be expected to design a “healthy lunchbox policy” on what makes a nutritional packed lunch over the next year.

Some parents may even be asked to sign a form agreeing to ban unhealthy foods from their children’s lunches.

If a packed lunch is deemed to contain too much fat and sugar, parents could be sent warning letters or their children’s meals confiscated.

So America, let’s take some lessons from Across the Pond. Unless, of course, you want to be denied healthcare some day because you’re too old.

If you want to see what America will look like in about 10 years if the current direction continues, cast your eyes across the pond to France’s riots.

A snippet:

France does not like to see its recurrent, and some say worsening, bouts of urban violence through the prism of race or color. Rioters are often described simply as “youths,” while poor projects with large concentrations of immigrants are “sensitive urban zones.”

In the name of equality, France has so idealized the melting pot that it has made its minorities invisible—on paper at least. The country does not compile statistics on the foreign-born or their French-born children. France, a nation of 60 million people, has the largest Muslim community in western Europe but does not know how many Muslims live here. The number is estimated at about 5 million—though some experts disagree.

Let’s see here… immigrants who fail to integrate into the local culture? Check. A government who turns a bind eye to the problem for fear of offending said immigrants? Check. Media that — for the sake of political correctness — re-word things to be more “sensitive” and less “inflammatory”? Check.

And how is that any different than what is happening here in the U.S. with our llegal immigrant problem? If we don’t make some changes and soon, we will likely be headed for the same fate as France.

The full article can be found here: Riots Point to Racially Divided France