I’ll let Cal Thomas, appearing in today’s N&R, speak for himself when discussing the “slippery slope” that led to the situation in which an Oregon man suffering from prostate cancer finds himself.
I’ll just highlight the paragraph that, in my mind, blows a huge hole in the argument for socialized medicine:
Randy Stroup is a 53-year-old Oregon man who has prostate cancer, but no insurance to cover his medical treatment. The state pays for treatment in some cases, but it has denied help to Stroup. State officials have determined that chemotherapy would be too expensive and so they have offered him an alternative: death.
Forget the part about the state offering Stroup death as an alternative. Focus on state denied help, determining that chemotherapy was too expensive. Proof that socialized medicine would have many of the same problems its advocates cite over and over as evidence the current system is broken. Only socialized medicine we be more expensive. For everyone.
