Sorry about that - but it is for the best you know

For those who keep singing the joys of national healthcare - Captain's Quarters reports.

The Manchester Guardian reports on a family's struggle against Britain's National Health Service to keep their daughter alive. The NHS has decided that Charlotte Wyatt, an eleven-month-old preemie, will never be able to recover from the complications of her birth and want to force a do-not-resuscitate order onto her parents:

The parents of baby Charlotte Wyatt are expected to hear this afternoon whether a high court judge has supported their case for their daughter's right to life.

Darren and Debbie Wyatt from Portsmouth tried to convince Mr Justice Hedley that their 11-month-old child has a right to life. They argued their daughter should be provided with every aspect of medical care available.

Charlotte was born three months premature, weighing only 1lb and measuring five inches. She has already stopped breathing three times due to serious heart and lung problems; she is fed through a tube because she cannot suck from a bottle and she needs a constant supply of oxygen.

Portsmouth hospitals NHS trust argues that resuscitating Charlotte again would lead to further damage to her lungs and cause her further suffering. It has asked the court for an order allowing its doctors not to ventilate her again if she has life-threatening breathing difficulties.

This is no surprise that when limited money interacts with increasing health care demands that the sanctity of the government fund beats out the sanctity of life every time. History only repeats itself here. When Germany's National Socialist (Nazi) Party brought about national healthcare that the first to die for this plan was the elderly through euthanasia. Then those with birth defects or who were judged incurably ill were next. Their experience with gas chambers started with these people.

In these cases the government always gets to decide who is worth saving and who is not. Life is fine just as long as it doesn't eat up much needed money for healthier people. Of course these types of examples only elicit comments such as we would do it better and it wouldn't happen here. The people in England, Canada, and many European nations all said the same thing - that they would do it better. This is the same mind set of those who have seen socialism fail in every part of the world yet think that they would do it right if just given a chance.