Monday, May 23, 2005
Nationalized Healthcare's Great Failure: A British Boy Dies for Socialism
Everyone knows that socialized medicine does not work - except brain dead liberals who have been lobotomized and want everyone to have a similar operation. So of course it is not surprising to hear this story - how the NHS, the National Health Service here in the UK, killed a young boy.
Boy dies after cash-strapped Great Ormond St cancels op
Imagine for a moment the devastation wrought on America if the Clinton Health Disaster had been passed. It is too gruesome a thought to contemplate.
Everyone knows that socialized medicine does not work - except brain dead liberals who have been lobotomized and want everyone to have a similar operation. So of course it is not surprising to hear this story - how the NHS, the National Health Service here in the UK, killed a young boy.
Boy dies after cash-strapped Great Ormond St cancels op
A nine-year-old boy has died after an operation to treat his severe epilepsy was cancelled because Britain's top children's hospital had run out of money.
Peter Buckle, from Evenwood, in County Durham, had a massive seizure and died last Monday. He had been waiting to undergo surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.
The brain operation which might have saved his life had been cancelled twice. The first time, on March 15, Great Ormond Street cut back its operation lists after finding that it had treated more children than its budget allowed for. The operation was rescheduled for April 22, but cancelled three days beforehand when a ward was closed after staff contracted a viral infection. It had since been rescheduled for June 10.
Peter's mother, Judith, 42, said: "We will never know if the operation would have saved him - that is the most awful thing about this. I was very bitter, just like any mother would be, but it has been a long road. We are devastated. But that's life, isn't it?"
Imagine for a moment the devastation wrought on America if the Clinton Health Disaster had been passed. It is too gruesome a thought to contemplate.
