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Dupayosha of the Week of March 28, 2011   Kathleen Sibelius née Gilligan

~ Remind you of someone?  Something?  Dunno, furshur.  Ditched dyke?  Dissed domina?  Depressed delusive?  Your neighbor’s dog, muzzle shaved?  Abraham Lincoln’s twin sister?  Abraham Lincoln, the drag queen?  [Wow.  Opinions only.  Only opinions.  Just sayin'.  Remind you, or what-not?] ~

“Politico calls out Kathleen Sibelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for a bogus remark she made about the American health care system earlier today:  “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says patient outcomes in the United States are like those in ‘a developing country’ – and that they’ll stay that way if the health care reform law if repealed.

“ ‘The delivery system changes are what will affect underlying costs, and that impacts everybody,’ Sebelius said Thursday. ‘We pay 2 1/2 times what anybody else pays in the world, and our care outcomes look like we’re in a developing country.’

“The United States actually ranks well above developing countries on multiple health indicators, coming in right above the European Union on infant mortality and slightly below Portugal on life expectancy, according to the CIA World Factbook.

“The United States does, however, regularly pay much more for common medical procedures than other developed nations. [All hail to the D.C. dupas down all the decades.]  Prices for everything from the delivery of a baby to the replacement of a hip in the United States are more than double the costs in countries like Canada and Germany, according to the International Federation of Health Plans’ annual survey of medical costs.”

“Kathleen Sibelius’ Bogus Claim About U.S. Health Care: ‘Like a Developing Country’ ” posted by Emily Esfahani Smith, theblaze.com, April 1, 2011