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
I think her fatal mistake was going home and off the local adminstrator’s tab. As along as she languished dying at home she wasn’t the NHS’ problem.