This would almost be a good script for a half hour comedy, on FX or some other deep cable channel. Too bad it’s true.

Video seems inconclusive as to who initiated the melee that left 38-year-old Kenneth Gladney of St. Louis injured outside of U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan’s forum on health care last week.

But it does raise eyebrows when one sees that Gladney, who was there to protest health care reform and is now the cause celebre of the limited government-advocating “Tea Party” movement, is seeking donations to pay for a knee injury.

Brown told the crowd that Gladney is accepting donations toward his medical expenses. Gladney told reporters he was laid off recently and has no health insurance.

(via KansasCity.com)

Step 1. Hate the concept of government provided healthcare.
Step 2. Get injured at protest about government provided healthcare.
Step 3. Have no health insurance, private or otherwise, because you recently lost your job.
Step 4. Ignore the cognitive dissonance that arises from hating the very healthcare that could provide for you right now.
Step 5. Ask for donations to cover your medical bills.
Step 6. ???
Step 7. Profit

Oh but there’s more. The rabbit hole of stupidity goes much, much further.

Enter the Investor’s Business Daily editorial, which clearly also isn’t a fan of the proposed healthcare reform:

The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility analysis based on the “quality adjusted life year.”

One year in perfect health gets you one point. Deductions are taken for blindness, for being in a wheelchair and so on.

The more points you have, the more your life is considered worth saving, and the likelier you are to get care.

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.

Good point, it sounds like Stephen Hawking really wouldn’t have stood a chance of receiving good healthcare in the UK.

Just ignore the fact that Hawking was born in Oxford, and has never lived outside of England.