[stuartcr]

Probably he and his family and loved ones.

[silverleaf]

a lot of high quality treatment with drugs discovered and funded by American research

I’d like to see 10 million illegal imigrants pour into England to get NHS care

[frogjerk]

Ezekiel Emmanuel says so.

[Adder]

Ummmmm

That was the most condusing bunch of stupidity I have ever tried to follow.

[No offense to the poster intended: what do bats and bananas have to do with Stephen hawking?]

[mak5]

But a young Hawking, one who had not yet become an international celebrity, would be told that his life would be without value, that it would not be cost-effective to treat his “chest problems”, and would be given the “pain pill” and sent home.

[paulycy]

Brutal headline. Interesting article.

[McGruff]

Hugh Muir is the Guardian's diary editor. He has also written extensively about race, social policy, policing and London Government

Since when are diaries news?

[martin_fierro]

Just put Dr. Hawking in a Quantum Box and be done with it.

[BertWheeler]

Birthers aren’t crazy, they just want the Constitution respected. It’s not a hard concept to grasp.

[kromike]

I might be mistaken, but Hawking endorsed The Angel of Death for President.

Just desserts...

[ChessExpert]

Stephen Hawkings is already famous. He is a celebrity. Those kind of people will get care under socialized medicine. If he were not already famous, he would probably be left to die under England's socialized medicine.

[Dudoight]

But if you use Ezekiel Emmanuel’s scale of ‘worthiness’ to society, the government would go to the bank to keep this guy alive and communicating.

Show me another British citizen with the same diagnosis who has the supportive equipment and health care attention as Hawkings has recieved.

[Dutchboy88]

Hawking is no more or less valuable than the local plumber. His “brilliant mind” is full of self-aggrandizing error, so I think I favor the plumber at this point.

[WhiteCastle]

For a clear and accurate picture of hoe governnment health care actually kills people by denying them care try: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj_american_cancer_care_beats_the_rest.htm and http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2M0ODk0OTNkZjkwNGM4OGMyYTEwYWY3ODUzMzFiOTc=

[DouglasKC]

Oh there will be great health care for the wealthy and the elite. It’s the middle class and poor who are being controlled and manipulated.

[Stolly]

“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”

Thats probably one of the most unfortunate things i’ve heard said in this debate.

Is this what we are reduced to ? Making things up without any effort to check the facts ?