Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
I'm not entirely sure where the socialism comes in. Labour doggerel, perhaps, but when was the Labour party last socialist?

Surely socialism would have sucked you dry by taxation in order to provide whatever drugs were required, on demand, for as long and expensively as possible. Regardless of how much personal wealth the recipient had stashed away. Your story only shows a government pretending to supply universal healthcare, but actually penny-pinching in the finest tradition.

I am however, uplifted by the intimation that the market has proven so much more compassionate in every way.

The socialism comes in the form of state healthcare free at the point of delivery. IE the NHS, set up after the Beveridge report. I'm aware that the treasury is not a bottomless pit and that not everything can be afforded.

My point is that the terminally ill patients are being punished for 'topping up' their healthcare via private means. To withdraw all NHS treatment because a person dying of cancer decides that they might like to live a bit longer is outrageous. After all, this is done in the name of avoiding a two tier healthcare system, (when was the last time a government minister went NHS?) which is the credo of the political left.

We all know that our Great Leader is a wassock. Now he's a murdering wassock at the alter of equality. Nasty.

In Capitalististan, the government would gladly pay their inhabitant's health care? My, we are confused
I am after that post. Did you read the article?