[theBuckwheat]

Before anyone posts remarks about government health care in the UK, recall that here in the US we have some incidents to be ashamed of, such as forced sterilization of people thought to be mental incompetents, and the 40 year syphilis test on unknowing blacks (the “Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment”).

[SamAdams76]

This is what you get when you put the government in charge of things.

[brytlea]

I’m not sure what any of that has to do with this. Unless of course you just wanted to bring it up for some odd reason. No matter what, there always seems to be someone who is eager to remind us all that we are not perfect either. OK, so noted. Now...can we just get on with the thread?
susie

[peyton randolph]

such as forced sterilization of people thought to be mental incompetents

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"Three generations of imbeciles is enough." - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Buck v. Bell.

He was right. Nothing to be ashamed of.

[Lurker]

Did any of that happen last week?

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[swmobuffalo]

“and the 40 year syphilis test on unknowing blacks (the “Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment”).”

Actually the blacks knew what was going on.

[weegee]

It isn’t an indictment of the UK’s implemenation of government health care. It is an indictment of ALL governments’ health care systemic abuses.

Forced sterilization went through our courts and was part of the eugenics movement.

Putting them in charge of all of society’s medical care/payments/options only opens the door for it to happen again.

The murder campaign in Nazi Germany began with those in hospitals. There were people asking “how can the State have such nice places for idiots and terminal people when others are starving?”.

The State does not always look out for our best interest. They look out for the bottom line and easiest solution sometimes.

[Mountain Troll]

Precisely. Such things CAN happen here. And with John Edwards pushing for mandatory government health care, including mandatory mental health screening, they will.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Before anyone posts remarks about government health care in the UK, recall that here in the US we have some incidents to be ashamed of, such as forced sterilization of people thought to be mental incompetents, and the 40 year syphilis test on unknowing blacks (the “Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment”).

Yes, but this was how many years ago? However, they're still finding them over the pond in their socialized abyss.

[the invisib1e hand]

government health care in the UK

Government anything, anywhere, is guaranteed to create stories like this.

[chiefqc]

And don’t forget about what papa Joe Kennedy did to his own child to keep her from getting knock-up as it would has looked bad for their famous whiskey running family.