So it seems that Britain's Much Vaunted National Health Service© has some competition in the race to the bottom. From our friend The Political Hat:
"Canadian Hospital Pushes Euthanasia on Disabled Patient"
As we've oft-noted, killing off pesky, expensive patients is a sure-fire way to rein in out-of-control health care costs.
(And by the way: have we noticed yet that even nationalized schemes have been unable to keep health care costs in line? Just wondering)
And it seems to be becoming a pretty routine, if final, "solution:"
"Foley tells the man that he’s “always thinking I want to end my life” because of the way he’s being treated at the hospital and because his requests for self-directed care have been denied."
This is far form Dr K's assisted suicide apparatus: no matter what one thinks of that process, at least it was (ostensibly) voluntary. This is full-blown actively pushing for the patient to pull his own plug not for his own betterment, but for the savings to the health "care" system.
Which begs the question: what, they ran out of ice floes?
"Canadian Hospital Pushes Euthanasia on Disabled Patient"
As we've oft-noted, killing off pesky, expensive patients is a sure-fire way to rein in out-of-control health care costs.
(And by the way: have we noticed yet that even nationalized schemes have been unable to keep health care costs in line? Just wondering)
And it seems to be becoming a pretty routine, if final, "solution:"
"Foley tells the man that he’s “always thinking I want to end my life” because of the way he’s being treated at the hospital and because his requests for self-directed care have been denied."
This is far form Dr K's assisted suicide apparatus: no matter what one thinks of that process, at least it was (ostensibly) voluntary. This is full-blown actively pushing for the patient to pull his own plug not for his own betterment, but for the savings to the health "care" system.
Which begs the question: what, they ran out of ice floes?
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