Posted on 09/05/2023 10:18:19 AM PDT by Inkie
A British court has held that Britain’s National Health Service, which has long been the gold standard of socialized medicine, can stop treating a 19-year-old woman who is conscious and wants to live. This is the natural endpoint of the rationing that is inherent in socialized medicine.
Ostensibly, socialized medicine promises to give top-quality healthcare to everyone. And if you’re a national treasure like Stephen Hawking, you will get that type of care, because it looks really bad if the government lets a renowned physicist with a degenerative disease die because treating him sucks up too many government resources.
However, the reality of socialized medicine is that it revolves around rationing. The government has “X” dollars available for medical care, and it will allocate that money according to a political calculation that doesn’t necessarily involve actual healthcare. As Scott Atlas wrote in 2011, when the World Health Organization claimed America was a healthcare failure compared to other, socialized medicine nations, the devil was in the statistical details: In socialized medicine countries, you can see a doctor (although you may wait years to do so), but you won’t actually get medical care.
And speaking of those damned, lying statistics, another game that countries with socialized medicine play to prop up the appearance that they provide actual medical care is to lie about infant mortality data. The truth behind the claim that America lags in infant mortality compared to the world’s other, socialized-medicine countries is that different countries count “live births” differently. Countries other than America don’t count as live births those fragile infants that probably won’t survive. That way, it looks as if more of their infants survive after birth.
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Edited for honesty.
Any third party payment system for medical care involves rationing.
The British National Health Service should be sanctioned by the next President of the United States.
Trump and Pence played nice when the NHS put others to death like that child Charlie Gard back then.
No More Mr. Nice Guy serious measures against the British Government of Death.
By the way a British court is deciding this matter if they decide death for the 19-year-old let the Judge be sanctioned like some Chinese Communist or Iranian or Russian or North Korean would by our government.
Would have to start with Canada. We had > 10,000 “Medically assisted” suicides last year.
Absolutely the English speaking “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance countries all distinguish themselves on so many fronts from COVID tyranny to a culture of death.
The so-called “Conservative” New Zealand politician David Seymour (”don’t be a *ickhead, get vaxxed”) also promotes a long list of reasons to end one’s own life.
He may be in the next government his ACT party running very well in polls right now.
From 2006 and the UK, behind a paywall, but the headline says it all...
Let's hear it for socialized medicine!
“Absolutely the English speaking “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance countries all distinguish themselves on so many fronts from COVID tyranny to a culture of death.
It has been a real wake up call re the English speaking “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance countries all distinguish themselves on so many fronts from COVID tyranny to a culture of death.
Their interference with Trump’s first election was criminal and brazen.
There is some flaw in the Anglosphere that their post-Christian elites are much more degenerate and depraved than in non Anglo-sphere countries.
Yope, you medical care is too expensive!
Let us put you humanely asleep!
btt
The Death Panel has spoken.
As I understand it, if a baby takes a single breath, it counts as a live birth in the U.S. This not only skews the infant-mortality rate but also the life-expectancy statistics.
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