Two facts should give us pause as we move into the brave new world of health care reform: (1) universal heath care is fiscally unsustainable if we continue to provide care at the level expected by most Americans (2) we spend huge amounts of money on elderly and terminally ill patients.
John Griffing at the American Thinker believes that these realities, combined with the kind of central government control of health care that is the obvious goal of the Democats in Congress and in the White House, will push us further and further toward the sort of heath policies adopted in Holland:
Holland has already slipped the slope. Holland’s healthcare system is so cash-strapped that it views humans as liabilities. A patient must formally request “no euthanasia” before simple outpatient surgery.
And this is no mere formality:
Involuntary euthanasia accounts for over 1,000 deaths in Holland. In addition, 8,000 people in Holland die every year because they are given intentional overdoses of pain medication, not to control pain, but to end life.
Don’t think this can happen here? Better wake up and smell the coffin.
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