A Baby Survives Because of a "Neglectful" Doctor

by Will

Liberty Minute January 1 2014

The vast apparatus of regimentation and cronyism called ?Obamacare? is nothing more than a precursor to a fully socialized single-payer health care system. The architects of Obamacare have unflinchingly said that their plans will eventually require imposition of a new ethic in which doctors are forced to act in the politically defined interests of the collective, rather than on behalf of the individual patient.

This is the case in Britain?s National Health Service, in which doctors are expected to follow an ethical blueprint called the Liverpool Care Pathway. This requires that doctors provide for the supposedly compassionate death of certain people ? including elderly patients with some chronic conditions and premature infants under a certain weight.

Recently, a child named Maddalena Douse was born at 23 weeks? gestation at a hospital in Brighton, England. Under the Liverpool Care Pathway guidelines, she would have been allowed to die if she had weighted less than 400 grams. She just barely made weight, and received sufficient care to survive. It was discovered that doctors had mistakenly left a pair of scissors on the scale, tipping it just barely in her favor.

Under the UK?s socialized medical system ? which prefigures the direction Obamacare will take ? the weakest survive only when doctors neglect or ignore the government?s guidelines.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. 

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