Story from The London Times. (H/T Stop the ACLU via ECM)

Excerpt:

* The mother of a 13-year-old girl who became partly paralysed after being given a cervical cancer vaccination says social workers have told her the child may be removed if she (the mother) continues to link her condition with the vaccination.

* A couple had all six of their children removed from their care after they disputed the necessity of an invasive medical test on their eldest daughter. Doctors, who suspected she might have had a blood disease, called for social services to obtain an emergency protection order, although it was subsequently confirmed that she was not suffering from the condition. The parents were still considered unstable, and all their children were taken from them.

* A single mother whose teenage son is terminally ill and confined to a wheelchair has been told he is to become the subject of a care order after she complained that her local authority’s failure to provide bathroom facilities for him has left her struggling to maintain sanitary standards.

You can question the service provider in a free market capitalist health care system – they have no power to ruin your life if you try to oppose them. But you can’t question the service provider in a government-run health care system. That’s treason, according to some Democrats. How dare you oppose the vision of the annointed? They’re better than you!

Well, actually some people are questioning government, and doing a pretty good job of it. Take a look at these two women at town halls.

From Hot Air:

From Michelle Malkin:

It’s stories like this that make me despair of ever getting married and having children. Something goes wrong in the minds of people on the left so that they can commit the most abominable atrocities – even taking people’s children away from their own parents! Who wants to live in a world like that?

And the young people seem to be so enthusiastic about being coerced by a secular government – and why not? Parents just hand their children off to government-run schools who cannot tell the truth but must advocate for more and more government. That’s how they get raises after all.

Here are some encouraging videos that show how upset some Americans are about Democrats wanting to bring socialized medicine here.

More NHS horror stories here.

More horror stories about the NHS, from this Telegraph. (H/T Secondhand Smoke via ECM)

Excerpt

Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today. In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death. Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.

In a socialist system, you have value to the ruling government only so long as you are supplying the state with funds. When you start to drain funds from social programs run by the state without paying taxes, then you have no value. (This is also why socialists oppose stay-at-home mothers)

The best solution to this problem is to have everyone pay their own way – no one cares more about your safety than YOU. The best way to get quality treatment is for you to spend your own money in a market filled with service providers competing to provide you with the best health care for the lowest price.

More NHS links from the National Review. (H/T ECM)

BBC:  “NHS workers knit to stay healthy.”

BBC:  “A woman who complained about her father’s treatment after he died in a Devon hospital has said she is furious the NHS has denied any wrongdoing.”

BBC:  “Prison food ‘beats NHS hospitals’.”

Wales Online:  “NHS desperate for doctors as visa rule changes bite.”

BBC:  The NHS has apologised after writing to a man to address concerns over his treatment — three-and-half years after he died.

Independent:  “The NHS must stop hiding behind complex bureaucracy.”

Times Online:  “NHS consultants, including experts in palliative care, were consulted as part of Mr al-Megrahi’s care.”