The United Kingdom continues to provide vivid warnings about the dangers of centralized health-care planning — a real possibility under Obamacare. Within the last few years, the U.K.’s notorious rationing board, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), urged hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices to follow an end-of-life protocol known as the Liverpool Care Pathway. The Pathway’s guidelines instruct doctors to put patients thought to be near death into a drug-induced coma, after which all food and fluids, as well as medical treatments such as antibiotics, are withdrawn until death.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Road to Euthanasia
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It's true. We do kill grandma. (not being sarcastic)
ReplyDeleteIf I were old, sick or especially an organ donor, I'd think at least twice before showing up and putting myself at the mercy of the disease care system. Depends I guess.
(doctor rationalises)
Well, if this guy dies that's all the organs we need to save five lives on the transplant list...hmm...