Comments on: Socialized Medicine and the Veil of Euphemism http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/07/16/socialized-medicine-and-the-veil-of-euphemism/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:31:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/07/16/socialized-medicine-and-the-veil-of-euphemism/#comment-4517 Catron Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:33:42 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/07/16/socialized-medicine-and-the-veil-of-euphemism/#comment-4517 You really need to do some reading on the term "neocon." You obviously don't know how to use it, except as a general purpose epithet. You really need to do some reading on the term “neocon.” You obviously don’t know how to use it, except as a general purpose epithet.

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/07/16/socialized-medicine-and-the-veil-of-euphemism/#comment-4510 Marc Brown Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:05:22 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/07/16/socialized-medicine-and-the-veil-of-euphemism/#comment-4510 'The term “universal health care” is destined to take its place beside “collateral damage” as a modern masterpiece of euphemism. Just as the latter can be deployed without conjuring images of dead babies and demolished neighborhoods, the former can be used without evoking the specters of purgatorial waiting lists and obsolete technology.' This has to be the ultimate twisted neo-con scam - take a term - 'collateral damage' - used by warmongers and conflate it with a term used to provide sensible health provision in almost every other developed nation apart from the US. In present US healthcare, there isn't a much better term than 'collateral damage' apart from the next step - 'intended consequences'. ‘The term “universal health care” is destined to take its place beside “collateral damage” as a modern masterpiece of euphemism. Just as the latter can be deployed without conjuring images of dead babies and demolished neighborhoods, the former can be used without evoking the specters of purgatorial waiting lists and obsolete technology.’

This has to be the ultimate twisted neo-con scam - take a term - ‘collateral damage’ - used by warmongers and conflate it with a term used to provide sensible health provision in almost every other developed nation apart from the US. In present US healthcare, there isn’t a much better term than ‘collateral damage’ apart from the next step - ‘intended consequences’.

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