Posted by
VBushmills on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:15:20 AM
One of the first things Vassar Bushmills told me the first time we talked was about the AIDS rate in Russia, which he first visited in 1991. He said that 80% of the AIDS cases in the old USSR at the time of the Fall was due to dirty needles...in hospitals!
He went on to say that this is the ultimate price one pays for indifference, which is the ultimate reward of a bureaucratically-run society.
With all due respect, there may be more to VB's assessment than mere indifference, for it seems, as England's health care system is proving, the standard of care also diminishes because the actual standards they teach in medical school, and later during internship, also tend to diminish when there is no longer any financial incentive for the brightest to aspire to become doctors. England may be nearing the point, if not already there, where they can no longer offer certain medical treatments because they have fewer and fewer doctors actually able to diagnose the ailments.
If this happens in America, before you blame socialism, blame the law schools, for that is where the first leg of rigorous standards and training "succame" (Isaiah Thomas) to feminism and political correctness.
But don't look to the University of Iowa Law School or Case Western. Look first to Harvard (oops, I mean Yale, but hey, Harvard has sent its own troop of poseur-legal minds out on the public as well)...and look to the academic career of Sonia Sotomayor.
Eventually things may look just as bleak on the medical front, too.
Worse, as Vassar pointed out awhile back, it may not be long before they let "engineers" who can't do a simple logarithm build our bridges.
It's a slippery slope indeed, and it started with the law schools.
Bernard Chumm