Socialized Medicine II

A couple days ago JK made a post comparing the survival rates of cancer patients between socialized medicine nations and the United States.

Unsurprisingly, Americans have a higher survival rate.

I commented somewhat sarcastically...

Yet another unsurprising factoid from the ills of socialized medicine.
I can't wait until euthanasia becomes prescribed by the health systems of those countries.
It's the most cost-effective, after all.
Then we're one step closer to Logan's Run. ;)

Well, here's a case, where I'd rather be wrong.

The parents of Charlotte Wyatt have been told that doctors are to be allowed to let their profoundly ill baby daughter die if they feel it is in her best interests.

A High Court judge yesterday lifted a previous ruling that she should always be resuscitated, on the grounds that the two-year-old was now on a "downward rather than an upward trend".

Mr Justice Hedley heard an emergency application from doctors treating her that she had developed an aggressive chest infection and was unlikely to survive any moves to keep her alive.

"Medical evidence speaks with one voice, that ventilation simply will not achieve the end for which no doubt the parents would wish," he said.

It's not quite a prescription for death by bureaocracy.... but it's awfully close.

Pharmaceuticals Posted by AlexC at February 26, 2006 12:46 PM