Imagine your child is born, a long-awaited bundle of joy. But there’s a problem: He has a rare and serious genetic condition. Your health coverage won’t pay for his treatment—no surprise since it’s extremely expensive. Something else is more than a surprise, though: After raising the necessary funds yourself, your healthcare provider—the government—forbids you to give your child treatment.
It says he must be left to die.
Tragically, the above doesn’t require imagination for Chris Gard and Connie Yates of London, England—it’s their real-life nightmare.
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The state is simply doling out what Churchill described as the inherit virtue of socialism: The equal distribution of misery.
Posted by: Flash Kellam | May 03, 2017 at 06:38 AM