‘Death Panels’ Were an Overblown Claim — Until Now

As it becomes apparent that that ObamaCare is unsustainable, the calls for controlling its costs through rationing will grow louder.

Michael D. Tanner CATO Institute This article appeared on The Daily Caller on May 27, 2010.

During the debate over ObamaCare, the bill’s opponents were excoriated for talk of rationing and “death panels.” […]

How could this happen? Former Land Girl honoured by Brown dies after she is left to ‘wallow in her own filth’ on National Health Service ward

David Wilkes Daily Mail [UK] 27 Apr 2010

Her ‘loyal and devoted’ service as a Land Girl in the Second World War won her praise from Gordon Brown.

But this is the horrifyingly undignified state in which Clara Stokes had to live out her last days on an NHS [National Health Service] ward.

Helpless and […]

UK: Patients put in hospital ‘cupboards’ due to National Health Service budget squeeze

by Pat_S at TammyBruce.com 3/13/2010

…The NHS is having some money problems. Oh, and by hospital “cupboards” they mean mop closets.

No, we sure wouldn’t want to maintain the status quo with our health care system in the U.S. Medicare and Medicaid are going to bankrupt us. Private insurers keep raising their premiums and denying […]

Sick trade in NHS medicines: Profiteering chemists cash in by selling life-saving drugs to European clinics

Jenny Hope and Pat Hagan Daily Mail [UK] 19 February 2010

NHS patients are being put at risk because profiteering pharmacists are selling prescription drugs to Europe.

Unscrupulous speculators cashing in on the weak pound have created a shortage of at least 40 drugs, a Daily Mail investigation has found. They include treatments for cancer, […]

200,000 elderly will lose their home care

Weak and vulnerable pay price of bank bailout By STEVE DOUGHTY Daily Mail/London 07th September 2009

More than 200,000 frail elderly people will lose meals on wheels and other care at home in a savage round of cutbacks.

Only the most seriously sick and disabled will retain the right to free meals and help with […]

Be careful what you wish for…

From the American Thinker by J. R. Dunn Excerpted from the article Obama Fails

…Here’s what a search on “UK NHS” a few weeks ago came up with: a maggot infestation at the Royal Children’s Hospital (the staff assured parents there was nothing to worry about). A sick woman who grew so tired of lying […]

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