Health Care Choices Only Liberals Are Willing to Make

More evidence that our health care system isn’t working:

PLAINFIELD, N.J. – If the country is facing a nationwide health-care crisis, then the condition in New Jersey can be described as gravely critical.
The state has an estimated 1.3 million people without health insurance who cannot pay a doctor or a hospital bill. New Jersey law requires that hospitals treat anyone who walks through their doors, and then get reimbursed later by the state. But the state’s looming budget shortfall has forced it to cut back on the reimbursements, leaving hospitals to pick up the tab. And hospitals, in turn, are going broke: Six have closed in the past 18 months, and half of those remaining are operating in the red.
As the economy falters, the number of uninsured is likely to grow, and so will the burden on hospitals. And with more hospitals expected to shut their doors, New Jersey faces a nasty culmination of health-care crises.

This isn’t good folks. It’s been happening more and more. The bottom line is hospitals need to take in money in order to operate. Those on the left will use stories like this to promote their demand for single payer universal type coverage. Like they have over in Britain.
Speaking of the Brits, who are struggling to pay for their national health care, here’s how they keep costs down:

A woman has claimed an NHS hospital “starved” her elderly mother rather than continue her care.
Ellen Westwood, 88, was in Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital for two months being treated for dementia and C.difficile, which she had previously contracted.
Her daughter Kathleen Westwood said the hospital decided in February it was in her “best interests” to halt fluids and nutrition - a move the family opposed.
The trust said it followed national guidelines on elderly care.
An investigation is under way.

National guidelines? Oh really we might ask? Well, yes, the hospital DID follow the government rules. That do include allowing elderly and disabled people to be starved to death when doctors decide their lives aren’t worth saving; that the costs to maintain a life outweigh the costs to end the life. See, if we eliminate those pesky people from the health care chain, there would be plenty to go around for those left- those who some believe deserve life over others. This is what happens in a national system. Care rationing is becoming the norm in Europe. Now they’re not even bothering to care- they’re outright denying it in favor of death.