It’s scary to think of a British-style health care system coming to America. People like to say that hey, it’s free so we should be happy, and plus, it would mean that “no one” would be uninsured. This is, of course, a fallacy. Britain’s health care is not free, it’s paid for by taxpayers. And while you might not be uninsured, the kind of health care you receive could be apalling and life-threatening… unless, of course, you’re part of the liberal protected victimhood. Say, like fatties who can’t restrain themselves from stuffing loads of chips and cheeseburgers and fries and desserts down your throat, or child molestors who need Viagra, or transsexuals who say they “need” breast implants to be happy.

The legally aided gender dysphoria sufferer, who has been living as a woman for over 10 years, says breast augmentation is essential to her female identity and emotional well-being and the refusal to give her the op amounts to sex discrimination.

… The court heard the woman – referred to in court only as “C” – has been battling to persuade the PCT to fund breast augmentation surgery since 2006, but has been repeatedly refused on grounds that her’s is not an “exceptional” case.

C has not had a sex change operation, but has undergone hormone and other treatments to make her more feminine, the court heard.

Her barrister, Stephanie Harrison, said it amounted to sex discrimination that she had been treated in exactly the same way as a “natal female”, not suffering from gender dysphoria, applying for cosmetic breast enlargment on the NHS.

Arguing that C would “derive psychological benefit” from breast enhancement, Miss Harrison said the PCT’s refusal “leaves a treatable condition and untreated” and exposed her to “significant suffering”.

Breast augmentation would be “an appropriate and cost-effective treatment” that would enable C to achieve “a congruent physical, psychological and social identity”.

So, the man who thinks he’s a woman hasn’t even had his penis chopped off yet, but he still wants to get breast implants. His argument is that he shouldn’t get treated like the normal women out there that want breast implants, because he needs them for his happiness and well-being. I’m sure that most women who want breast implants would probably say the same thing, but considering this man is a gay transsexual, it makes him special. And of course, why bother paying for his breast implants himself? He’s transsexual, and therefore getting breast implants is a right that British taxpayers should be forced to pay for. If he doesn’t get his free breast implants, then it is, as always, DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!!!!!! Nevermind that apparently, getting free breast implants is extremely rare — so rare, that it’s described as having an almost blanket ban on the procedure. Breast implants are never a necessary surgery. It won’t save anyone’s life and it’s not necessary for anyone’s physical health. But because he’s a transsexual, it means he needs them in order to be a productive member of society, or something similarly ridiculous. And who cares if he’s wasting valuable money dragging the NHS through this case? It doesn’t matter if that money could have been used to help patients who need life-saving care. He’s a gay transsexual, after all, and that makes him special.

80-year-old Hazel Fenton, on the other hand, is not as special. When she was sick, doctors stopped treating her. After classifying her as terminally ill, they stopped treatment and refused artificial feeding.

AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.

Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.

Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.

Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex, on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.

Ball, 42, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”

Fenton was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia. Although Ball acknowledged that her mother was very ill she was astonished when a junior doctor told her she was going to be placed on the plan to “make her more comfortable” in her last days.

Ball insisted that her mother was not dying but her objections were ignored. A nurse even approached her to say: “What do you want done with your mother’s body?”

But of course, death panels don’t exist. That’s just that nasty Sarah Palin making stuff up,

In all seriousness though, how does this “Liverpool care pathway plan” make a dying person more comfortable? Not only are you dying, but you’re being starved and dehydrated to death? That doesn’t exactly sound like comfort and compassion to me.

Another person not as special as our gay transsexual friend above is Matthew Millington. He joined the British Army at 16 and became a corporal in the Queen’s Royal Lancers. As he was serving in Iraq in 2005, he was diagnosed with an undisclosed lung illness, and was told that unless he received a lung transplant, he would die within two years. So what did the NHS do? Well, they gave him lung implants, all right… lungs donated by a smoker who had lung cancer.

Matthew Millington, 31, died at home in Brown Lees, near Stoke-on-Trent, after receiving the organs from a donor who is believed to have smoked between 30 and 50 roll-up cigarettes a day, an inquest heard.

Following the death, an investigation at Papworth Hospital, in Cambridge, pinpointed a string of problems, including issues with communication, record-keeping and patient handover. It found that a radiographer had failed to highlight the growth of a cancerous tumour.

… He was told that he had only two years to live unless action was taken and in April 2007 received a double lung transplant.

But he died ten months later as a result of damage caused by disseminated lung cancer.

A lack of communication between radiographers and consultants meant it was not until October 2007 that a tumour, which had grown from eight mm to 13mm between June and August 2007 was detected.

Its’ growth was accelerated by the immunosuppressive drugs Cpl Millington was taking to prevent his body rejecting the transplanted organ.

He died on February 8, 2008 at his family home in Stoke, Staffs, leaving behind wife Siobhan.

She told the inquest her husband had to go back into surgery three times in nine days as post-operative problems with infection and stitching emerged.

… North Staffordshire coroner Ian Smith discounted a verdict of misadventure or neglect.

He said Cpl Millington had died from “complications of transplant surgery and immunosuppressive drug treatment”.

He said: “This is the result the family wanted and at least these days there is more transparency about the way things are conducted.”

Excuse me, but the result his family wanted? I’m pretty sure his family didn’t want him to die. And while the gay transsexual above is trying to get British taxpayers to pay for his breast implants, other Britons are suffering. This is how a soldier who served his country gets treated under NHS — by getting a shoddy surgery and cancer-infected lungs??

This is socialized health care, folks. Do we really want any form of this at all coming to the United States? Are you really going to delude yourself that it will somehow be better here? The victims of socialized health care are not some faraway people that you hear about on the news but never actually know. They’re real people, real families affected by this health care disaster. If we have any sense at all, we won’t let any form of this touch our country.

Hat Tip: Moonbattery