Among the dangers associated with giving government bureaucrats control of health care involves their tendency to make policy based on junk science and passing fads. As usual, Britain’s socialized medical system provides a case study in how bad it can get:
Last year the NHS published what it believes is the biggest public sector analysis of carbon dioxide, the biggest greenhouse gas, which showed the organisation’s emissions in 2004 were 18.6m tonnes and rising.
That’s right. The same NHS that can’t provide cancer drugs for dying patients is concentrating its energy on the system’s … carbon footprint. And how are these geniuses going to address the grave threat of carbon emissions?
Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service … The plan to offer patients menus that would have no meat option.
Even for people naive enough to accept the conventional wisdom about global warming, it could hardly be more obvious that taking meat off the hospital menu will have no measurable effect on carbon emissions. But this is government health care—-dumb and dumber.
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