Young and old, government-run health "care" schemes are getting pretty good at reining in the cost of care. Last month, for example, we learned how the Dutch manage such a feat:
"A Dutch woman doctor who asked an elderly patient’s family to hold her down while she administered a fatal drug dose has been cleared under Holland’s euthanasia laws"
But hey, that's just a sick old woman. No way this would happen to a youngling.
Right?
Um:
"Doctors can withdraw life support from a sick baby with a rare genetic condition against his parents' wishes"
Apparently, It takes a village to kill a child.
But wait, it gets even better (for certain values of "better"):
"His parents ... had wanted to take him to the US for a treatment trial."
Of course, this is far from the first time we've blogged on the Much Vaunted National Health System©'s war on children:
"A mother has described how her baby was left to die 'like an abandoned animal' after hospital doctors repeatedly ignored her desperate pleas for help."
Which begs the question: how, exactly, are our Cousins Across the Pond going to pay for care, since they keep killing off their young 'uns?
"A Dutch woman doctor who asked an elderly patient’s family to hold her down while she administered a fatal drug dose has been cleared under Holland’s euthanasia laws"
But hey, that's just a sick old woman. No way this would happen to a youngling.
Right?
Um:
"Doctors can withdraw life support from a sick baby with a rare genetic condition against his parents' wishes"
Apparently, It takes a village to kill a child.
But wait, it gets even better (for certain values of "better"):
"His parents ... had wanted to take him to the US for a treatment trial."
Of course, this is far from the first time we've blogged on the Much Vaunted National Health System©'s war on children:
"A mother has described how her baby was left to die 'like an abandoned animal' after hospital doctors repeatedly ignored her desperate pleas for help."
Which begs the question: how, exactly, are our Cousins Across the Pond going to pay for care, since they keep killing off their young 'uns?
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