[via The Daily Telegraph]

File this under “coming soon to a United States near you”:

Every adult could be forced to pay £20,000 upon their retirement to cover the cost of old age care services that they might never need or use, under government proposals…..

…..The proposals for a “compulsory care scheme” — the favoured option among ministers out of several announced yesterday — would mean that middle-class pensioners who have saved and paid taxes throughout their lives could still have to sell their homes to pay for old age care. [READ THE REST]

How compassionate the end result of government mandated “universal” health care!


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  1. Community Transformation Plans « Temple of Mut on July 20, 2009 5:10 pm

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  2. Mutnodjmet on July 20, 2009 5:11 pm

    Please Spread the Word on Community Transformation Plans.

    http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/community-transformation-plans/

    One of the things she reported is that the Senate version of the proposed healthcare reforms had bureaucratic organizations to implement “Community Transformation Plans”. Teams that would assess the individuals that make up each community and begin drafting plans for healthier living. The bill, with the Orwellian name of the Affordable Health Choices Act, would direct money to “community organizations” so they could promote government health care and tailor citizens’ diet and exercise programs healthy lifestyles — based on their opinion of what constitutes such lifestyles. In a nutshell, American lifestyles would be dictated by “Community Transformers”.

  3. Water Lily on July 31, 2009 3:09 am

    This Government is getting out of control. We need to take back the reigns and show them who’s boss. They are our servants.

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