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August 15, 2008
Britain's Socialized Medicine Bureaucracy Rejects Rule of Rescue
There is one good thing about socialized medicine. It prevents money being wasted on lives that it costs too much to save. After all, there's no shortage of humans on the planet. What does it matter if one individual dies? The important thing is the State's bottom line.
In the socialist dystopia once known as Great Britain, the ironically named NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Guidelines) has ruled that patients' lives should not be saved if it would cost too much. The "rule of rescue," based on the fundamental human instinct to come to the aid of people whose lives are endangered, has been officially rejected.
NICE has also been keeping costs down by limiting the drugs available to Britons. Last week, it nixed four kidney cancer drugs said to double life expectancy. The longer sick people live, the more they cost the State.
You would think that this inhuman devotion to efficiency would result in socialism being able to compete with capitalism, but as history has shown time and time again, it cannot. Yet liberals push us toward it anyway, as if out of sheer malevolence.
On a tip from Rob Banks.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 15, 2008 7:36 AM
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...but as history has shown time and time again, it cannot. Yet liberals push us toward it anyway, as if out of sheer malevolence.
But that's just because they did it wrong. They were greedy and corrupt. We're better than them; we're smarter than them; we can make this work!
The liberals always think they know better, and that they can succeed where dozens of other have failed, because they are intellectually superior, not to mention morally superior and better-looking. Arrogance and hubris are what drive them, not malevolence. They sincerely believe that socialism is the best thing for humanity, ignoring all evidence to the contrary. "We just need the right people in charge," they say, "and this will work perfectly." The problem is that the right people may not always be in charge. That would explain what is going on in Britainistan.
Filthy statists.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at August 15, 2008 9:34 AM
