Too Expensive to Feed in the UK, and Too Expensive to Cure in the US

I read a comment somewhere a few weeks ago that I tucked into my rather small head. If my head was larger I could have perhaps even remembered where I read it.

I'm going to take a stab and say it was in the comments of a post on Protein Wisdom.

The gist of it is that in a socialist health care system, every person needing treatment is a drag on the structure and a net negative. In a private health care system, every person needing treatment as a paying customer that helps to buoy the structure and is a net positive. The comment ended with the question...under which system do you suppose you would receive the better care?

I was reminded of this comment by an article I just read in the Daily Mail with an assist to Moonbattery.

At least 30,000 patients were left starving on NHS wards last year, despite ministers’ pledges to make proper nutrition in hospitals a priority.

Last year, Health Minister Ivan Lewis admitted that some patients were given a single scoop of mash as a meal.

Others were ‘tortured’ with trays of food placed just beyond their reach while nurses said they were too busy to help them eat.
elderly patient

And now, official figures show that between 2005 and 2007, there was an 88 per cent rise in reported cases of poor nutrition leading to a serious deterioration in a patient’s health.

Last year, NHS whistleblowers reported 29,138 such errors to the National Patient Safety Agency – up from 15,473 in 2005.

This on the heels of a Townhall opinion piece by Cal Thomas titled, The Price is (Not) Right.

Randy Stroup is a 53-year-old Oregon man who has prostate cancer, but no insurance to cover his medical treatment. The state pays for treatment in some cases, but it has denied help to Stroup. State officials have determined that chemotherapy would be too expensive and so they have offered him an alternative: death.

Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law allows taxpayers to pay for someone to kill Stroup, because it's cheaper than trying to heal him. How twisted is this?

And this is the sort of "change" that Barack Obama and other left leaning politicians want to hoist on to the backs of every American.

For the purely capitalist, sell your Humana stock and hold out for an IPO from the Hemlock Society.