"How House Bill Runs Over Grandma" is a tastefully titled editorial from the July 31 Investors Business Daily. In the middle of pushing the Obama-wants-to-kill-everyone-over-the-age-of-65 lie, they present this tidbit:
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn'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.Hawking is a theoretical physicist who is almost completely paralyzed from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (better known as Lou Gehrig's disease) but hasn't let that stop him. In addition to being a college professor, he has written a series of books in which he explains such mind-bruising topics as cosmology and quantum gravity in language accessible to everyone, not just those with multiple PhD's.
Oh yes, and he lives in the UK. In fact, he's lived there all his life. Not only is he not ineligible for health care, he was hospitalized earlier this year.
You may think IBD's editors just might be slightly abashed that their central "gotcha" point is in fact wildly wrong, but I doubt they noticed. After all, they're too busy pushing health-care lies to be bothered with something as trivial as accuracy.
On the other hand, since Hawking theorizes the existence of "baby universes" via black holes, perhaps the editorial is true in one of those other universes. Makes more sense than the rubbish they usually churn out.
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