....Yet despite [Berwick’s] torrid affair [with the NHS], new British Prime Minister David Cameron is devoting an extra £1 billion to cancer care and other specialty treatments and surgeries that the NHS currently denies to patients because the bureaucracy deemed them too costly....
That says it all!!!!
The “medical policy left” is MUCH too utilitarian, and MUCH too enamored of “the government knows best”. Let’s return to a Judeo-Christian ethic and the Hippocratic Oath rather than utilitarianism, and let’s have a health care system that takes account of the realities of medical innovation today as stated in the WSJ article.
Folks, you need to understand what Berwick meant by his comment on “rationing with our eyes open”.
That means that health care will be rationed, not by blind, unbiased processes of the market where individuals make their own decisions about what they want to get and spend,
but those rationing decisions will be made by
BIASED SOCIALISTS WITH AN AXE TO GRIND.
They will use their power to ration to punish those whom they have despised all along and favor those that they see as their sheep or their benefactors.