Yet another example of bad socialized medicine. Brazil

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21963108 Recap: Dr Virginia Soares de Souza, and seven assistants... are being charged with murder in the deaths of SEVEN PATIENTS. But it doesn't end there. Apparently more than 20 more deaths are being investigated as suspicious. Further, additional 300 deaths are being reviewed since the deathcare doctor was in charge when they happened. "According to Reuters news agency, state prosecutors have released wiretaps which apparently show that her motive was to free up beds." Commentary.... "Free up beds". Once again, this is the natural result of a government run health care system. In a private pay-for-service system, you would never have a reason to kill the patient. The patient is the customer. If the hospital wants to get paid, then they have to keep the patient alive. Dead patients don't pay bills. But this idea of freeing up beds, is very common in socialized systems, because the government doesn't have unlimited resources. In England, Doctors proposed denying treatment to patients that were too old, or patients that were obese. Why? Because you have patients that are going to die anyway, and you have limited resources. If you have limited amounts of money for heart surgery, and you have two people, one that's 30, and another that is 80, which should get the heart surgery? The 30 year old of course. You could fix up the 80 year old, and they could still die the following week from old age. If you read the story of the first private clinic in Canada, the doctor who opened that clinic said his main reason for doing that was he got tired of telling patients they would have to wait 3 years to get treatment, because they didn't have beds available. This whole thing reminds me of a story in the US. There was a particular doctor that was just bad. He didn't intentionally kill people, he was just a horrible doctor. He was at a VA hospital, and killed dozens of patients over a few years. It turned out that this doctor had worked at two private hospitals prior. But in both of the private hospitals, he was fired, because too many patients died. Again, in private pay-for-service hospitals, patients are valued customers, and dead customers don't pay hospital bills. So after being fired by both hospitals, the doctor was black listed, and couldn't get a job. But in the government run VA hospital, where patients dying doesn't cost the hospital anything (because they are paid by tax payer money), and because VA hospital have a hard time filling doctor positions anyway, they not only hired this doctor after he was black listed, but they never would have even caught the guy. A nurse bravely, behind the back of the hospital administration, approached one of the widows of a deceased patient, and told her to get a lawyer and investigate it. If that nurse hadn't said anything, this doctor would have kept on killing patients. Conclusion: Again people.... this is how socialized medicine works. It's normal, and inherent to the system. When you say you want government funded health care, just remember this right here, is what you are asking for. A system that allows patient abuse, where patients are a problem, not a valued customer, where treatment is bad, lacking, and even deadly.