BrianGarst.com

If you think encumbering health care with a massive bureaucracy is a good idea, the British experience warns you to think again.

Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday.

Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy  –  almost four months early.

They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines that babies born before 22 weeks should not be given medical treatment.

There are few things more inhumane than collectivization, in any form.  The reason left-wing totalitarian states in the 20th century were able to slaughter so many of their own people, while counting on the rest to turn a blind eye or even help, is because they had successfully collectivized morality.  When the primary moral unit is the collective, all manner of immoral action can be permitted and justified against the individual.

Remember this when you hear arguments for government health care based on collectivist morality.

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