She got her operation. It’s just that she had to wait nine months. In the nine months she was so weakened by her condition that the operation killed her. So it was an even worse misapplication of medical resources. Instead of operating on her when it could have done her some good, it was postponed long enough to kill her. And if you read the article in the Mail, she was staying in the hospital for some of the nine months and her family voluntarily brought her home to wait. So the management model is instead of promptly operating on someone and freeing up a bed after a couple of weeks, keep them in hospital for nine months and then give them the operation, killing them and consuming an extra eight and a half months of hospital bed. Sounds crazy. I wonder if she had stayed in the hospital if she would have received surgery sooner. The adminstrators may have felt that people who were occupying beds could be gotten rid of more quickly by operating on them.
Six decades ago, a brilliant English writer foresaw the future of socialism, with bureaucrats controlling how we live, think, and die —
“The thought police [National Health Service] would get him just the same. He had committed—would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they [DEATH PANELS] were bound to get you.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1