Since the court case, Mr. Atkinson has been removed from the hospital’s wait list for an evaluation for hip surgery and has been banned from anything other than life-saving treatment as a punishment for his activism.
Do you hold views inconvenient to the state, or anathema to the larger culture? If so, get ready, because the left can be ruthless when they have power. You'll be barred from medical treatment, and if you are permanently crippled as a result, well, that's just the cost you must pay for pointing out the hypocrisies of the state.
I am no fan of socialized medicine, but I'm quite sure that Mr. Atkinson's taxes have not been reduced in concordance with his loss of privileges with the Health Service.
See what I wrote in #20.