
“Since the old generally require more — and more expensive — medical treatment than the young, the increasingly aged population is putting a severe strain on Tokyo’s health care budget. One Japanese politician, however, has come up with a solution: Just let the elderly die, instead of treating them. That is, in fact, what is already happening in Great Britain, a country that has suffered under socialized medicine for 65 years. There, under a program of sedation and dehydration called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), National Health Service (NHS) hospitals euthanize about 130,000 people a year.”
Related posts:
James Bovard: Hey, wait a minute, Trump's fear-mongering isn't new
Nick Giambruno: Securing Your Assets When Financial Privacy Is Dead
Five Reasons Washington Should Leave Bitcoin Alone
Magna Carta, Subsistence Culture and Western Civilization's Future
Hunting for Foreign Real Estate Bargains
Jacob Hornberger: Dismantle the International Checkpoints
Bitcoin In Context, A Brief Cultural History Of Money - Lui Smyth
The Syria vote: Britain's new mood
In North Korea, Black Markets Are Saving Lives
Scheuer: Ten questions worth pondering on Obama, Syria, and Interventionism
Bill Bonner: The Day the ATMs Run Out…
How the Empire Works
Cui Bono Fed: Who Benefits from the Federal Reserve?
David Stockman Discusses "The Great Deformation"
The Great Deception, Part II