The Road to Starvation

These figures from the British National Health Service (NHS) are anecdotal but nonetheless telling about socialized medicine.

In 1997, 70,658 patients were admitted with malnutrition and 75,431 discharged from hospital with it. By 2007, these figures had jumped to 130,594 admitted and 139,127 discharged.

Therefore, rather than helping malnourished patients, the NHS is contributing to the level of malnutrition. The scandal is being blamed on inadequate and overburdened staffing.

I contend that socialized medical schemes, promising everything to everybody, are flawed at the outset. Sooner or later, the government runs out of resources and a bureaucracy has to determine priorities. As indicated by the data, feeding patients is not currently a priority for the NHS bureaucratic decision-makers.

Pack a lunch, friends, similar bureaucratic bungling of health care is soon coming to America. It's purported to be change you can believe in, even though your chances of starving to death will likely increase.