Joy Behar: Obamacare Like Fire Engines, They Used To Cost Money But Now They're FREE

Police and fire protection is not free. Taxes pay for it. Neither is ObamaCare, and the taxes it will take to pay for it in addition to the massive bureaucracy makes unsustainable an understatement. But to liberals like Behar, using other people's money makes it free:

Want to see where ObamaCare will take this country? Across the pond, they already installed it years ago, with predictable results: Cataracts, hips, knees and tonsils: NHS begins rationing operations

Hip replacements, cataract surgery and tonsil removal are among operations now being rationed in a bid to save the NHS money.

Two-thirds of health trusts in England are rationing treatments for "non-urgent" conditions as part of the drive to reduce costs in the NHS by £20bn over the next four years. One in three primary-care trusts (PCTs) has expanded the list of procedures it will restrict funding to in the past 12 months.

Examples of the rationing now being used include:

* Hip and knee replacements only being allowed where patients are in severe pain. Overweight patients will be made to lose weight before being considered for an operation.

* Cataract operations being withheld from patients until their sight problems "substantially" affect their ability to work.

* Patients with varicose veins only being operated on if they are suffering "chronic continuous pain", ulceration or bleeding.

* Tonsillectomy (removing tonsils) only to be carried out in children if they have had seven bouts of tonsillitis in the previous year.

* Grommets to improve hearing in children only being inserted in "exceptional circumstances" and after monitoring for six months.

Etc, etc. But no worries, old chap - IT'S FREE! HT: memeorandum. More from Maggie's Notebook, Betsy's Page and Power Line