Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
Why did they wait 18 months before going? Why did Italy await an equally long time? You honestly think that transporting them by ambulance to a plane, then airlifting them to another country would at that point be helpful? Right at the start that would be OK, but by the end? This was nothing but a PR game.

As has been mentioned, the only "liberty" that they would have got in the USA is the "right" to die from lack of money.

The UK continues to have the freedom to pack one's bags and leave to wherever else in the world one wishes to live. They could have done this at the start and can do it now. They will not be missed.

I have said time and again that I had no problem with the NHS’s decision to treat or not to treat the patient. My only problem was their seeking of a court decision to prevent the patient or his family from going elsewhere.

However, I do take issue with your apparent ignorance of medicine in the US. In large part the reason hospital care is so expensive in the US is to make up for those unable to pay and there still are charity hospitals there, even ones who specialise in children and hopeless cases.

Apparently that right to pack one’s bags only seems to apply before seeking medical treatment from the NHS.