Why Terry Schiavo Mattered

Just look what they're contemplating in socialized medicine-addled Britain:

A British ministry is proposing to deny medical treatment to patients based on age – a move seen as the "ultimate end" for universal health care.

A spokesperson for The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said that "if there is a justifiable clinical reason to not provide a treatment for certain age groups, not just older people, that will be O.K., if this treatment would not work or could not be offered. [my emphasis]

"Justifiable clinical reason," huh? If that doesn't sound like a loophole for euthanasia, I'll kiss Jack Kervorkian full on the lips.

Critics have raised concern that the policy could lead to the elderly being denied some services.

Not "could," but "will." And not "some," but "all."

What’s happening in Britain – the rationing of medical care – and "what will happen here if the health care busybodies are able to force us into some sort of single- or third-party payer or nationalized system, is a convergence of demand crashing into finite supply," reports Investor’s Business Daily.

And, wouldn't you know, the Vermont legislature is moving toward enacting precisely that on a state level.

I don't know that you could say "As Vermont goes, so goes America," but the Green Mountain state is where homosexual "civil unions" started, and look how that menace has metastasized.

And Florida is where America became a little more like Holland.

The confluence of the two are inevitable, as the Brits are discovering.

If we can make that same discovery before we inflict health care rationing upon ourselves, then perhaps Terri Schiavo will not have died in vain.