The NHS will fight for soviet socialism to the last drop of your blood !

The following story from the Times is almost too incredible to believe.

The visceral hatred of the human condition that socialism produces is shown in is vicious true nature.

A woman is being threatened with no treatment for her cancer (aka a death sentence ) if she is middle class enough as to want to live badly enough to pay for a drug the NHS won't provide.

The soviet NHS approach of her hospital trust is that if she does that she must pay for all of her treatment ( which let us not forget she has paid for already through the national taxation system and its effective insurance policy ).

Now if that treatment meant the NHS incurred more costs I can see the point of her being asked to pay those, but it doesn't seem to. The sacred issue here is not her life, but the fairness.

There is the issue of the patient in the next bed - with the same condition but less money. How will they feel watching the person next to them live if they head in the other direction due to not being able to purchase drugs ? Its an issue - but it surely doesn't justify reducing people's chances of life !

She must die so that other don't say its unfair.

Don't get me wrong there is a real issue about the limits on care available through the NHS ( mind you the waste in the NHS is truly massive with the failure of Gordon Brown to get good value for the large amount of our money he pored into the NHS. no doubt a very large number of people have died as a result of Labour failure to lead and manage the NHS effectively).

Given the fuss left wing guardianistas make about executing criminals in places like the USA and China - they seem to quite happy to condemn their fellow citizens to death for reasons of politics.

Update The Adam Smith Institute blog takes a similar line - blaming the government and suggesting the move is illegal anyway.