Good article. It would be interesting if there were any cases of American children who had the same medical problems as Charlie Gard or Alfie Evans, and a comparison between the British process and the American process for dealing with it could be laid out in an article like this.
2 words: Bed blockers.
Those 2 words tell you everything you every need to know about the bloody NHS.
Yes they do. But way too many Americans are OK with it because they don’t think it will happen to them and they’d rather have a nanny state take care of them and make decisions for them than keep their own money and make their own choices for their families.
And we thought we defeated the Nazi’s in WWII !!!!!!
You see we have had several cases like this in the US.
Boston's Children is notorious for it.
The main problem is that once you check your child into a hospital and allow them to give him care you can only remove them with the hospital's consent.
It was meant so hospitals could act in cases of abuse. Like all good intentioned ideas it is now out of hand and any differences you have with the hospital over care is now considered "abuse" and they will take you to court.
While the single payer does not make it any easier the real problem is the assumption that the medical staff is pure and above reproach and "only doing what is BEST for the child".
In truth everyone has their own personal motive and sometimes they can be holding your child to prove a pet theory.
When the opinion of medical people are automatically given more weight then the wishes of the parent trouble is bound to follow.
Babykillers! That’s what NHS is now.
My personal observation of countries that have government-run health systems is that people are forced to go public with their most intimate and embarrassing health problems in order to try and pressure some bureaucrat into approving their treatment.
Watch the foreign press and you will see this time and time again.