This is another one of those nooze stories that never had an ending: we don’t know what happened after the National Health Service ordered doctors to snitch on patients who gained weight.
After a couple generations of socialism, I wonder if Britain is going to be good at anything beyond just taking up space on the map.
Government will make you good!
Government will make you healthy!
Back to the cradle, everybody.
And someday there’ll be no one left to rock it.
Paging Dr. Lecter, Dr. Lecter to Ward 6…
I wasn’t going to write anything more today, I really need to read The Wind from Heaven and patch up any errors in it–but this I have to write about.
The UK’s National Health System–socialized medicine, idolized by America’s Democrats–has new rules now that allow hospital staff to withhold medical care from patients who are “racist, sexist, or homophobic” (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3817556/posts), Sky News has reported.
Supposedly this applies a) only to “non-emergency care” and b) to patients who assault, or threaten to assault, hospital staff. But they give away the game when they reveal that patients’ “remarks” are to be equated with “violence.” So again we have leftids redefining “violence” to cover anything said that they, the leftids, might find objectionable.
So here’s the problem. They–government employees–get to decide which “remarks” are dangerous. They also get to decide what would be “non-emergency” and what wouldn’t.
Is it hard to imagine that some patient, who carelessly lets it slip that he, say, voted for Brexit, who comes into the hospital writhing in pain from a broken leg, will be neglected because Hard Left staff decide a broken leg is “non-emergency” and anyway he deserves it, no-good racist that he is? That’s, like, never gonna happen?
This is why the powers of government must be strictly limited, and government kept O-U-T of matters, like health care, that don’t concern them. But of course when you have socialism, everything concerns the government. That would include medical care, who gets it and who doesn’t, as well as a patient’s personal beliefs.
As sure as night follows day, this sort of thing will happen here if Democrats succeed in importing an NHS-type health care regime to America. These are people who really do believe you ought to suffer if your mind’s not right.
Heaven help us if we fail to crush them in November.
“I’m from the National Health Service, and I’m here to help you!”
Wow. Two-third of Britons, in a new poll, think “trans women”–uh, men, actually–who compete in women’s sports have “an unfair advantage,” and are “cheating” (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6793607/Almost-two-thirds-Britons-believe-trans-women-unfair-advantage-sport.html).
This was said first by famous lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova, and the poll found that two out of three agree with her and only 12% think it’s okay for men to compete in women’s sports. This got the trannies in an uproar, so Navratilova went into grovel mode, explaining that she wasn’t talkin’ about all “trans men,” just the ones who “cynically changed gender” so they could do well in women’s sports. Mon, that’s an awful lot of cynicism.
This comes on the heels of Britain’s National Health Service deciding that “trans women”–that is, men–who have not yet been surgically mutilated into sham “women” are to be cared for in women’s wards in the hospitals. So if you’re a real woman and you need a hospital bed, and they turn you away because some guy got the last bed–well, that’s tough.
If the UK medical establishment honestly believes these men are honest-to-pete “women,” then they’re crazy. If they know the men are not women but go along with it anyway, then they have no integrity and shouldn’t be trusted to practice their version of medicine on anyone.
You’ve heard of “settled science.” Well, this is settled pseudo-science.
You really do wonder why these leftids don’t just light out for Venezuela, Somalia, or some other Third World paradise, rather than try to create one here.
But they can’t do it unless they can get the rest of us to want to wreck our country.
https://newswithviews.com/they-want-you-to-hate-your-country/
P.S.–This morning I have to get my car inspected, and who knows how long that’ll take? Another one of those “sit there and vegetate” exercises.
Poor Britain.
Take away God, take away any belief that your nation is in any way worthwhile, take away personal responsibility–and what have you got left?
Gambling?
As reported by The Daily Mail, Britain is being swept by an epidemic of gambling addiction so serious that the National Health Service has become involved, doling out medication that’s supposed to help patients stop gambling ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3450831/GPs-prescribing-10-000-year-drugs-wean-punters-betting-bid-tackle-Britain-s-gambling-epidemic.html ).
Authorities estimate that there are more than half a million “problem gamblers” in Britain now, a major increase over what they had ten years ago, leading to “mental health problems, family breakdown, and crime.” The main culprits appear to be these Fixed Odds Betting Terminals–gambling machines, FOBTs for short–that have been set up all over the place.
The lesson, as we have noted so many times before, is a simple one: Kill the culture, and the culture will kill you right back.
Poor Britain.