The ugly truth of government rationing:

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across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away
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"Forecasting death is an inexact science,"they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death "without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.

Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday.

Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - almost four months early.

They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines that babies born before 22 weeks should not be given medical treatment.

Some will claim life expectancy and infant mortality statistics show U.S. healthcare is subpar. But these claims are as dishonest as Obama's speech the other day; that premature infant mentioned above was not only left to die without any care, he doesn't even get counted in their infant mortality statistics. This is beyond perverse: socialised countries set up rules saying if you are born too early or weigh too little at birth, you are not worth caring for or counting, then they trumpet their low infant mortality as evidence of how well their systems work. Only government could have the gall to let babies die and call it better quality care.

Furthermore, even with the American penalty for counting preemies as people, states like Hawaii and Minnesota have life expectancies as high as any in the world. This is because life expectancy is mostly driven by factors other than the state of national healthcare, as these maps demonstrate with a 10-year gap across the country.

The truth is there is very little about the status quo that can be improved with government intervention. American health care is the best in the world. We have the highest cancer survival rates, do twice as many transplants as Europe, have about twice as many MRIs per capita as the OECD average, and get new drugs an average of a year before Europe does.

Don't let them trick you into taking all that away. Learn the facts and demand to be heard.