Nov 22 2009
Government values your life at 6p a minute
Over at Guido Fawkes…
When Sarah Palin said Obama’s healthcare plan would result in “death panels” that would see bureaucrats making subjective judgements on life and death, she was furiously howled down by Obama supporters. So how should we describe the expert panel of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which decided that patients will be denied a new cancer drug on the NHS under draft guidelines, because it is too expensive?
What makes this situation even more disgusting is the objection to “co-payment”. Pay for what the NHS won’t provide and they’ll throw you off the system completely, withdraw treatment and kick you out - all in the name of “equality”. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Andrew Dillon, the CEO of NICE, is no doubt on a very hefty salary. But he and his death panel of evil accountants deem that a “quality year of life” is worth £30,000 and not a penny more. By contrast they pay Analysts at NICE £39,000 p.a. If another year of “quality life” on Earth will cost more than £30,000, they’ll pull the plug… And who determines “quality”?
The “quality life” value of £30,000 a year equates to…
…two thirds of Speaker Bercow’s home refurbishment bill
…£576 per week (equal to Margaret Beckett’s hanging basket bill or one-third of a duck island)
…£82.19 per day
…£3.42 per hour (six chocolate Santas)
…6p per minute (equal to a minute’s phonecall from BT)
…0.5p per breath*
…0.1p per second
Do you think your last breath was worth more than 0.5p? The government doesn’t.
