The Future of Socialized Medicine

A MOTHER is taking her fight to the European Court of Human Rights after she was forbidden from seeing her three-year-old daughter because she is not “clever enough” to look after her.

Yes, you read that right. Self-important bureaucrats have seized her daughter because she isn't smart enough to keep her.

But..."declaration by a psychiatrist that Rachel, 24, has no learning difficulties and “good literacy and numeracy and [that] her general intellectual abilities appear to be within the normal range”."

So she is smart enough. Monkeys have babies, I don't understand why the UK thinks someone of normal intelligence can't manage it.

Now, now, princewally, this isn't fair. Of course the government will allow subjects to have some form of recourse.

Well, yeah.

Her attempts to fight Nottingham city council’s adoption of her daughter have been hampered because her case was taken over by the official solicitor, the government-funded lawyer who acts for those unable to represent themselves. He was brought in to represent Rachel’s interests because she was judged to be intellectually incapable of instructing her own solicitor. He declined to contest the council’s adoption application, despite her wish to do so.

You gotta remember, government hacks will always back the government play. Always. Don't think it won't happen here.

Found here.

Socialized Health Care, the preview

Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.

Uh-oh. We'd better socialize the industry to encourage the best and brightest to stay. Oh wait....

Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said they'd consider leaving medicine. Many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there's too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies.

Hmm. The doctors want to leave because government intervention and regulation makes their lives difficult. Does anyone think socializing the industry will make this better? It will add to the red tape and decrease doctor salaries. That'll convince 'em to stay, for sure.

Faith Healing....didn't

Parents Prayed While Daughter Died

An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday.

Because miracles happen every day(not really) and god will answer your prayers, ignoring the billions of other people with needs.

Maybe, just maybe, god answered your prayers decades before you asked him to, by allowing science to outrun superstition and letting the good doctors develop treatment for common illnesses and diseases.

Idiot.

And the police in that town aren't any better.

The girl has three siblings, ranging in age from 13 to 16, the police chief said.

"They are still in the home," he said. "There is no reason to remove them. There is no abuse or signs of abuse that we can see."

Neglectfully allowing your daughter to die because you don't like doctors is abuse.