{"id":166,"date":"2009-08-10T22:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-08-12T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T13:35:25","slug":"rhetoric-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/10\/rhetoric-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhetoric Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-brooks-blog.blogspot.com\/\">Thom Brooks<\/a> on facebook has pointed out this hilarious rhetorical fact checking fail from Neo-conservatives debating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333933006516877\">public provision of health care in the US<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The controlling of medical costs in countries such as Britain through rationing, and the health consequences thereof are legendary. The stories of people dying on a waiting list or being denied altogether read like a horror movie script.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K.&#8217;s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility analysis based on the &#8220;quality adjusted life year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One year in perfect health gets you one point. Deductions are taken for blindness, for being in a wheelchair and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The more points you have, the more your life is considered worth saving, and the likelier you are to get care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn&#8217;t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now the problem with this lovely piece of rhetorical flourish is of course that Stephen Hawking lives in the U.K. where he supposedly wouldn&#8217;t stand a chance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the laugh Thom<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thom Brooks on facebook has pointed out this hilarious rhetorical fact checking fail from Neo-conservatives debating the public provision of health care in the US: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/10\/rhetoric-fail\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,511,475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}