Jul 21 2009
Obamacare: Only The Strong Will Survive III
Obama’s liberal experiment on health care took another blow today as its UK role model killed one of their citizens for bad life style choices:
A 22-year-old alcoholic has died after being refused a life-saving liver transplant because he was too ill to leave hospital and prove he could stay sober.
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Gary with his mother just days before he died. Pic: The Sunday Times
Gary Reinbach, who died in hospital on Monday from a severe case of liver cirrhosis, did not qualify for a donor liver under strict NHS rules.
The alcoholic, from Dagenham, Essex, had admitted binge drinking since he was 13 but was only taken to hospital for the first time with liver problems 10 weeks ago.
He was never discharged.
His mother Madeline Hanshaw, 44, said: “These rules are really unfair.”
22 years old. He had plenty of time to change his ways, to pull himself out of the mess society led him to. This is Obamacare in spades. Otherwise, the democrats better prove how this kind of life style rationing will never happen.
The entire UK deserves a Darwin Award.
Socialism in general does seem to have a way of returning people to a world where life is nasty, brutish, and short.
I have a cousin who is a plastic surgeon in France, when he was told he needed a bypass operation last year, he came to the U.S. to have the procedure. When I asked him why not have it done in France he said I would not risk my life to a surgeon who really does not care about the patient I was curious why he made that statement he explained that the surgeon does the operation and never see’s the patient again to him most surgeons in europe treat people like the auto industry it’s just a assembly line.
I am not sure this is really a Obamacare lesson. While he probably would have gotten a new liver here, it would have been a waste of taxpayer money to give him one. I consider this like the proposal to stop giving welfare increases to lazy women on welfare who pop out baby after baby without marrying. I have no problem cutting them off from the public trough, and this guy is a similar case. Alcoholic since age 13? Give me a break. He deserves nothing from us but our pity. He chose suicide, hoping that he could live based on his calculation that whatever he did to his body, the taxpayers would subsidize his alcoholism. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The US is going to need to purchase all that Afghan opium for those morphine pumps that Obamacare will be issuing.