Someone please tell me again why we need a socialized medicine system. This from Britain, it turns out that the weak and poor are urged to commit suicide (or soon may be killed off) because they are "burdensome" on the common resources. Much of the criticisms leveled at our current health system in the US have a basis but what is forgotten is the piles of regulation and government intrusion that protects insurance companies and hospitals from free competition the and free market (after all they all have powerful lobbies), which if the market is allowed to function would lower prices and increase standards of care. Why do we trust government and not free people to make free choices? People blame insurance companies and hospitals and plead for government when government is exactly what is insulated and protecting and coddling them away from free competition. This is especially crucial given that governments have a monopoly on force, as this article shows. Are you a "burden", well the state says it is best for you to be executed. Perhaps even the executer can be given a pretty-looking citizenship ribbon or award for doing his "patriotic duty." And then we can all sing, "God bless America" --SBW
"If you're demented, you're wasting people's lives - your family's lives - and you're wasting the resources of the National Health Service." She said that she hopes people will soon be "licensed to put others down" who have become a burden on the health care system.
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