Government Healthcare Means Rationed Medicine

Every country that has government-run healthcare is a country that rations its healthcare. Great Britain's NHS is a monstrosity that will as likely kill you as treat you.

I have relatives who have waited over 4 years for a simple foot surgery. My mother-in-law can not get her hip replacement for another 3 and is not allowed to purchase the only medicine that eased her arthritis pain.

So whenslate.com runs Kausfiles webpage talking about how US democrats are trying to sell universal healthcare to the American people by honestly stating that the government will decide if you live or die,....

"hard choices" and "rational" coverage decisions, by which Klein seems to mean "not providing" treatments that are unproven or too expensive--when "a person's life, or health, is not worth the price."

...I don't know whether to laugh or cry.