I’ve been trying to present evidence of the deadly nature of socialized medicine for some time now. Frankly, it hasn’t been very difficult. Here’s the latest, from the Daily Mail. It’s about a single individual, but it does, ironically, show how the NHS treats it’s own employees.
A doctor denied vital cancer treatment said yesterday that she had been betrayed by the NHS.
Becky Smith, 30, has been refused a breakthrough treatment which could prolong her life by up to 20 years.
The drug refusal came after her breast cancer was missed four times.
Without the treatment she may only have 18 months to live, the NHS surgeon has been told.
She said: ‘I feel so let down. I’ve given my all to the NHS and I could give it another 20 years, doing the work I love. I just need this treatment to give me a fighting chance.’
Dr Smith’s NHS trust has refused to pay for the £23,000 treatment, although it is available from 40 others, including one only five miles from her family’s home.
She now faces the agonising decision of whether to cancel her wedding to her childhood sweetheart and allow her retired parents to remortgage their home to buy her the chance of extra years of life.
She said: ‘It makes me so angry when I think of the amount of work I’ve put into the NHS and how little I’ve got back.
Doesn’t this story sound very similar to the claimed fiscal stresses and decisions that are the flaws of our (former) medical system? I mean, how many times did we hear about people making drastic sacrifices and declaring bankruptcy to pay for medical bills?
Just remember, the government has admitted that a rationing board will be a part of ObamaCare, just as we predicted, and just as the Democrats denied.
‘It makes me so angry when I think of the amount of work I’ve put into the NHS and how little I’ve got back.
This is the tragic irony of the situation. People do sacrifice and “contribute” to the government at a myriad of levels. But once those “contributions” go through the mill of bureaucracy and regulations, does anyone actually get back what they put in? I think we all know the answer to that.
I think the lesson here is that we have to recognize that once we are controlled by a giant, unelected bureaucracy, we will be reduced to a number. We cease to be an individual. The game then becomes about what is best for the whole. When that point is reached, as history shows, many die to maintain the collective, and even more so, to maintain the power of the bureaucracy.
Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
Let’s not forget about all of the NHs’s pest-ridden hospitals, rationed care, waiting lists, and drugs not approved for spending… or that Dr. Stephen Hawking, touted by the Left as an example of the NHS’s care, is only alive because of private donations.
I’ve covered a lot of the fail from the NHS, since that’s the direction that we’re heading. Frankly, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. The fail is obvious, and the results are tragic.
Well if you believe there is a push toward a global government like I do, then this all makes sense. One of there goals is to maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Go figure.
“One of there goals is to maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature”
…while under their boot.
Very well said Matt. And you are only scratching the surface of how bad this could be. My father was a doctor for 50+ years. A doctor that worried about his patients and took care of them not worrying about how he would get paid. What he calls the “Art of Medicine” is a long lost ability. The nurses and doctors are worried more about getting all of your information into their computer, rather than actually diagnosing you. My anger is building Matt so I’d better stop now.
It can’t all be said in one post. There are so many directions to go.
As an aspiring writer I want to look at what she said,
“It makes me so angry when I think of the amount of work I’ve put into the NHS and how little I’ve got back.”
I can’t count the number of times I have read, heard, or saw something similar to what she said when something dark, cruel, corrupt, criminal, or evil throws them aside when they have failed at something or out lived their usefulness.
And I don’t mean in works of fiction only, there have been a lot of people who ‘faithfully’ served people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Castro, for a short list, only to be tossed aside when they have outlived their usefulness or angered their leader. Stalin was infamous for his paranoid fits.
When are people going to learn you can’t serve corrupt, dark, or evil forces and expect to get rewarded for it by them, you only get rewarded by them if your on the top otherwise your just a henchman that is expendable for their ’cause.’
And on another quick point I wonder how many people she told their treatment was refused because of a decision the NHS, a bureaucracy, made on them without any compassion.
“And I don’t mean in works of fiction only, there have been a lot of people who ‘faithfully’ served people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Castro, for a short list, only to be tossed aside when they have outlived their usefulness or angered their leader. Stalin was infamous for his paranoid fits.
When are people going to learn you can’t serve corrupt, dark, or evil forces and expect to get rewarded for it by them, you only get rewarded by them if your on the top otherwise your just a henchman that is expendable for their ’cause.’ ”
I think you are referring to what Lenin and Stalin called, “useful idiots.” These are folks that are true believers in their cause. Then, when the “revolution” shows it’s true colors, the useful idiots are usually imprisoned or killed. After all, idealism cannot be permitted to interfere with the totalitarianism.
Sort of, but I am also referencing people who could careless about the cause, they are in it for
whatever rewards they can get from it and expect to be rewarded for their loyalty, and are
shocked and suppressed when they are tossed aside. They are not the ‘useful idiots’ who believe
in the cause, although she may be one, these people have no real interest in the cause or its true
colors, the best short description would be like that of a mercenary. Though ‘useful idiots’ are just as shocked by the betrayal, if not more. I hope that better explains what I was saying.
It does explain it. I get the sense that this doctor was a true believer. Given what the NHS pays, she probably was.
You are correct though, there are many “mercenaries” that care not for the ideology, but what they stand to gain. For some reason, Al Gore comes to mind…
But we gots smart peeples like Barry and Nan and Kathleen in charge so our socialized medicine will be so much gooder.
Yup, with dem der smart folks, it caint get worser. That’s fur sure!
“The game then becomes about what is best for the whole. When that point is reached, as history shows, many die to maintain the collective, and even more so, to maintain the power of the bureaucracy.”
Very, very insightful Matt. Well done.
Cicero stated; “While there’s life, there’s hope.”
If we let those of a self-appointed value determine the utility of someone else’s life, we will all be fixed with a cost/benefit liability. I guess Cicero never heard of Hope and Change.
No, Cicero never did. If he had, he’d been attacked as an extremist. Thanks for the kid words, LP.
Matt, the Daily Mail is the only source you’ll ever need to find evidence of how badly socialism sucks.
They seem to be a good one. Everything there seems well referenced.
once we are controlled by a giant, unelected bureaucracy
Dood. With the the regime’s czars all over the place, we already have a giant, unelected bureaucracy that controls us.
True Snarky, but once they get all the legislation that they want, they’ll tighten the noose.
I see no benefits to national health care. We all know the government doesn’t run things well and a massive program such as this will be a total train wreck. I see no good outcome.
I think it’s designed to be a train wreck. That way, it’ll cause a crisis. Once the left has a crisis to exploit, they can get even more control.
WOW, scary post, Matt, but not surprising.
This is exactly how the socialist scums treat the very people
who help and believe in them. This same thing, and worse
will happen here in America. Sad times indeed, this must be repealed.
Also, all gov’t workers, from the pres on down, should be forced to partake of
this nightmare just like they are forcing us to do.
Very true Bunni. There are dark days ahead unless we get rid of this.