[Alberta's Child]

The author makes good points here, but using the Charlie Gard case as an example of "individual liberty fading into the mist" sounds bizarre to me.

If the people of Great Britain were truly free, Charlie Gard probably would have died a long time ago.

This is the moral and philosophical paradox of this kind of story ... enjoying the benefits of a totalitarian, government-run health care system while it works in your favor, then complaining about the brutal totalitarian nature of the system when it renders a decision you don't like?

[iowamark]

This is the moral and philosophical paradox of this kind of story ... enjoying the benefits of a totalitarian, government-run health care system while it works in your favor, then complaining about the brutal totalitarian nature of the system when it renders a decision you don't like?

How can you know that they wouldn't have had private medical insurance if that were the system in the UK? The Gards did not create the NHS.

[BJ1]

Don’t trash these parents. They’ve been trying to get that baby out of the UK and into America for over a half year. They never asked for the government of the UK to pay for that. They just wanted the “permission” to take him.

And FYI they raised money to pay for the treatment in America too. This can’t be about money since all the UK has to do is let him go and he ceases to be an expense to them. This is about control. I guess that long history of serfdom has them thinking about freedom differently.