Do You Favor Socialized Medicine?
Posted by: tony on 06/25/2008 07:53 PM
Updated by: tony on 06/25/2008 07:55 PM
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Expires: 07/26/2008 12:00 AM
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You might want to read this
Baroness Ilora Finlay, president of the Royal Society of Medicine, said Labour's policy of denying free care to patients who use their own money to buy the latest drugs went to the heart of the purpose of the health service.
Lady Finlay, a doctor who specialises in the palliative care of cancer sufferers, asked:
'Can we justify spending billions of pounds on the relief of relatively minor conditions and deny patients with life-threatening disease the support of the NHS when they want to bridge the costs themselves?'
Hmmm... It looks like if one of the peasants in England wants to pay for their own drugs, their lords and masters want to yank out all of the rest of their benefits in the interest of "fairness".
The Government says allowing cancer suffers to pay for some drugs while receiving others free would create a two-tier health service, with patients on the same ward being given different drugs depending on their ability to pay.
So in England, you have the right to the same lousy health care as every body else. If you want to use some of your hard earned money to increase the quality, they will punitively eliminate the rest of your benefits.
Look closely, United States Citizens. This is the sort of thing that Barack Obama has in mind for you.
(H/T: Stones Cry Out)
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