One need not look far to find an example of the results of government run health care systems and the government making life and death decisions. A Windsor (Ontario, Canada) couple has a baby with a problem. Canadian health care allocation (death panel) officials decided he was in a vegetative state and would not recover. The couple believes that a tracheotomy would allow them to care for the infant at home. The death panel officials ruled that the child needed to be taken off life support so he could die at the hospital. The matter went before a Canadian judge, who ordered the father to give consent to take the child off of life support (on a side note, is it consent if ordered to do so by a judge?).
But that would never happen here, right? I wouldn't hold your breath.
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