NHS Official Says Let 23-Week Premature Babies Die

NHS Meltdown: NHS Official Says Let 23-Week Premature Babies Die » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: Rationing–which is a direct and unavoidable consequence of single payer health care funding–pits patient groups against each other, each seeking to exclude others from part of the pie so they can get more. A good example comes out of the UK, where the head of the NHS has said that babies at 23 weeks–viability is sometimes possible at 20–should be allowed to die because if they live, they’ll probably be disabled.