This Sceptered Isle, Part CXLXXIII

Hullo, what's this then? "NHS managers have been banned from rationing treatments while patients wait to die".

I guess that practice was wrong after all - so kindly stop doing it, you NHS Managers.

For some people this little bit of news from the Sceptered Isle may come as a surprise, for others it will simply be a confirmation.

PowerLine Blog puts it this way: Under government medicine, the patient isn’t the customer, the government is. The patient is merely an inconvenience who can make things easier by going away

Sounds right to me.

And meanwhile on these "progressive" western shores of the Atlantic, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments that Obamacare is brought to us by the federales for our own good.