More Bad News From Socialised Health Care Land
I’ve skipped over a host of articles about NHS failings over the past couple of months - I suppose that even I get tired of reporting the same old bad news all of the times. But this story which appeared today in the Daily Mail is just so heart-rending that I thought it deserved some attention. It’s over an investigation conducted into the deaths of a number of elderly pensioners who were admitted to Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire for a variety of ailments. The common threads that tie these cases together is that each of them was medicated to death under the care of the hospital and one of it’s physicians.
Agreed, the physician is a beast who should be sanctioned and her licence taken from her. Her practice of overmedicating her elderly patients with eventually lethal doses of diamorphine is clearly not something that should be tolerated. For her part in this sad saga, she does deserve all of our scorn and ill-will. But her employer, the NHS, is the real beast in the background of this tale. Just as I was told last Friday that my 22 year-old cat was just ‘too old’, these families had to deal with a system which doesn’t care about the value of human life as much when that life belongs to an elderly person as it does when that life belongs to someone younger. I’m sure that the NHS will do it’s level best to distance itself from this particular physician and paint her as a rogue who was operating outside of the established protocols and rules. But lets not kid ourselves - this is the aim of the NHS - to ration health care to the elderly in order to provide health care for others.
The stories all seem to go back to the point that socialised medicine has little use for the elderly, those who are no longer contributing much to the system through their taxes. This is the nature of socialised medicine. Get ready for it kiddies, if the Obama administration has it’s way, you’ll see the same happening here soon enough.
