Single-Payer Hell: Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve to death

Government-run healthcare does not lead to more choices, higher quality and lower costs. It leads to higher costs, bureaucratic red tape, diminishing quality and rationing. It also leads to absurd situations that from the outside sound medieval in nature. No government-run system embodies all that is wrong with the concept more than Britain's National Health Service (NHS). In Britain, under the barbaric NHS, liver cancer patients are denied life-saving drugs to save cost, babies born prematurely are left to die if they come out before a certain date, terminally ill patients are put on a fast track to death, patients with chest pains are sent home with pain pills only to die later that same day. The horror stories go on and on, such as the one's I have written about at the end of this post. BUT... NHS does have money to have violent child predators put on Viagra, and to irreversibly mutilate 12-year olds. Oh yeah - they also leave grandmas to die of starvation. From the U.K. Times Online via memeorandum: Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve.

AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.

Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.

The ease isn't for the patient, nooooo. The ease is supposed to be for the system. As in it eases their costs. How medieval is this? The dark ages have been over for half a millenium, but NHS is bringing it back to Britain!

Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.

Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex, on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.

Is anyone surprised by this? A daughter fighting much bureaucratic inertia to dave her mother's life, and even then it takes weeks! Pretty soon, citizens will have to literally break into hospitals armed with whatever weapons they can muster or improvise, to save family members from a horrifying and gruesome death by nameless, faceless bureaucrats who care not a wink for life. And this is what Obama and liberals want to install in the U.S?

Previously:
Single-Payer Hell: British NHS Takes 10 Months To Fix Badly Broken Arm
U.K. healthcare epiphany: You know, we should really be encouraging old people to kill themselves
British NHS doesn't have money to treat cancer patients, but has money for sex change of 12-year old boy
Single-Payer Hell: Life-Saving Drug Nixed In U.K. To Save Cost
Single-Payer Hell: A mother in the U.K.: 'Doctors told me it was against the rules to save my premature baby'
Single-Payer Hell: Patients With Terminal Illnesses Made To Die Prematurely Under British Health Care System - NHS. Death Panels are real!
Single-Payer Hell: Prisoners Eat Better Than NHS Patients
Single-Payer Hell: British patients sue over 33% failure rate for operations
Single-Payer Hell: In Britain, 'Cruel and neglectful' care of one million NHS patients exposed
Single-Payer Hell: Man collapses with ruptured appendix... three weeks after NHS doctors 'took it out'
Single-Payer Hell: Babies In The U.K. Born In Hospital Corridors, Toilets
Single-Payer Hell: British NHS Deny Alzheimers Funding Because "Alzheimer's Is Not A Health Condition"
Single-Payer Hell: In Britain, Unincarcerated Child Molester Being Given Viagra!
Single-Payer Hell: Woman in U.K. Denied Ambulance, Gives Birth On Pavement
The British National Health Service is the 3rd largest employer IN THE WORLD! Behind Chinese army, Indian rail
British National Health Service Sends Patient With Chest Pains Home With Pain Pills, Patient Dies