Third parties profiting off of poor outcomes for patients....in AMERICA!?

[Aegon]

^ people in the UK need to defend the NHS and their healthcare and raise hell or they will end up like us in the U.S.

Just ask poor little Alfie and his parents how the death panels of socialized medicine are working out for them.

Does it bother you that conservatives have convinced an entire generation of people to vote against their interests? To scare you into somehow thinking that people being given medical coverage is somehow a bad thing? The only reason a kid like Alfie could get the care he needed in the first place was because of a system that does not care how much money his parents make, because one's health and wellbeing should always trump their economic standing. It is an automatic assurance that he will be treated. The chance that a person, or a child, may not receive the treatment they deserve because of financial reasons or their family will go bankrupt in the process is the real death panel you speak of.

Here's a reality check to interrupt your regularly scheduled influx of far-right propaganda: All of that is actually irrelevant, and Alfie's case is one of legality. It really has nothing to do with whether they have private or public health care, and this case would happen even if Alfie were being treated in a private hospital and his family was using private insurance. The question is about whether or not it is just to prolong the life of a human being who is, by all accounts, destined for death; the argument the courts have made is that prolonging his life is just making him suffer and is not in the best interests of the child, since there is no chance for him to recover. This would be an issue in the U.S. too (in fact, it is and has been for decades.) Wherever you sit on that debate, please acknowledge that it has nothing to do with evil big bad socialist health care system trying to kill a kid for money. That's... actually kind of ridiculous, and all you have to do is apply critical thinking for a minute to realize that.

Neo, you're a smart guy, but for some reason when it comes to politics, you can't think for yourself. Do other people on this forum do the same but with left-wing sources? You bet, but that doesn't make it right. Come on man. Use your head.