Another Heartwarming Socialized Medicine Success Story

You ever notice the Democrats never quite get around to pointing out the joys of socialized medicine in other countries? Well, except for the braindead Michael Moores of the world just performing their clown act.

If you needed another reason to oppose the government overseeing your healthcare, read on.

A grandfather who beat cancer was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial 'death pathway'.

Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year- old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers.
He died within two weeks. But tests after his death found that his cancer had not come back and he was in fact suffering from pneumonia brought on by a chest infection.

To his family's horror, they were told he could have recovered if he'd been given the correct treatment.

Hmm, a death pathway? Might that be anything like a death panel, something we we told didn't exist in the healthcare bill only to see it quietly excised later?

Yesterday, after being given an £18,000 pay-out over her ordeal, his widow Pat branded his treatment 'barbaric' and accused the doctors of manslaughter.

Mr Jones was being cared for at a hospice which was central to the contentious Liverpool Care Pathway under which dying patients have their life support taken away, although the hospice claims it wasn't officially applied in his case.

The scheme is used by hundreds of hospitals and care homes, and is followed in as many as 20,000 deaths a year.

Read the rest. It's most depressing.