This is Socialized Medicine

"Dad-of-two Stewart Fleming grips his head in pain as he waits to be seen in A&E [Emergency Room. –RT]--but he died after being ignored for SIX hours. Clearly suffering, Stewart was clutching a note from his doctor saying he must be seen IMMEDIATELY. But the railway signalman, 37, was left to die as a deadly virus ravaged his body and one by one his organs collapsed. He was not admitted until six hours after arriving at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, Kent, by which time it was too late. An infection had taken hold of his heart, liver and kidneys and specialists were unable to treat the disease." This is what you can expect if we ever get socialized medicine in this country. The government, which is the “single-payer” in such a scheme, has a financial incentive in your death. Under private-paid medicine, the doctor has a financial incentive in your RECOVERY. Not so with a government-payer system. Further, if medical care is FREE, more people will use emergency rooms as they formerly used doctor’s offices, going there for the smallest of maladies. Soon they will not be able to get into one for a LONG time, and if they fie waiting, that’s good for the government’s pocketbook. (The Sun)