Our Healthcare FUTURE........

[GeoFisher]

You're making a basic assumption here, that being, that this only happened because of Britain's system of socialized medicine. I did a simple Google search, and it quickly turned up an example of this being done in the US:
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/co...ull/156/5/1700
Yes, that was from 12 years ago, but I'd be willing to bet it's still happening today.

I'm not defending socialized medicine, and I'm against the government-run "option." But please, let's back up this argument with FACTS, not inaccurate ASSUMPTIONS.

OK......but it looks like that was done as a part of a study, and NOT a common practice....

Big difference, if you ask me.

Also, I did a quick google search, and didn't find any other cases, including this one you quote, so it must not be too common.


Later,

Geo