This blog is dedicated to anyone who has fooled him/herself into believing single payer insurance does not result in “death panels” who decide on whether treatment should or should not be provided to people who will die without it.
Charlie Gard is an 11 month old baby. His family lives in the United Kingdom, with their “wonderful” health care system – in which people can die of old age just waiting to see a doctor, let alone be treated by one.
Charlie has an extremely rare disease that, under conventional methods of treatment, is incurable and fatal.
However, there is an experimental treatment in the United States which, though the odds are long, might save him. Since the alternative is certain death, his parents, of course, want him to have that treatment.
But British courts, based on the country’s health care/hospital system, have ruled that he cannot be taken out of the country to get it.
In other words, they have ruled he must stay put and die. Period.
President Trump has appealed to the British government to relent. So has the Pope. To no avail.
WHY??????????
Because they have the power to prevent any chance of this child’s survival, and they have decided to exercise that power. That’s why.
You can read all about Charlie Gard’s situation here. But please also read the following excerpts from Susan E. Bentley’s article at American Thinker:
Today I feel ashamed to be British. Little Charlie Gard appears to be under a death sentence courtesy of Great Ormond Street Hospital, the British Courts and with the agreement of papers such as the Guardian whose opinion is as expected ‘tripe’ (that’s a British dish of offal). The wonderful offers of help from all around the world have been awesome and deeply moving and in today’s Daily Mail Charlie’s mum explains how she first discovered her son’s condition. I don’t know how anyone could be unmoved by such a story and I am sure anyone who is a mother will understand about Connie Yates’ Mama Gard maternal instincts.
Why can’t Charlie be taken out of the country for the treatment so kindly offered by President Trump and the Pope? Apparently the British courts have the final say and the family has been refused a new judge. I feel like I have been asleep for many years and have suddenly woken up. During my Rip Van Winkle dozing, I have awoken to discover that I now live in a totalitarian state where the courts decide whether my child can live or die; where they can withhold medical treatment as and when they decide; where they can prevent treatment in another nation; where the rights of the individuals involved can be thrown on the floor and trashed like so much refuse.
My conclusion can only be we are no longer Great Britain but just another country being taken over by socialist, despotic ideologues.
How can this happen?
It can happen when the government is the one and only arbiter of who lives and who dies. In other words, it operates as a death panel.
Single payer, anyone?
