In the US

• This is only a potential for meltdown, not an actual example of it. Still, Mr. Smith reminds us that a government program can only be sued for making bad calls if it chooses to let you.1

In England

• The United Kingdom has found that its medical system has been rationing care solely on the basis of age.2 Now yes, they have just now passed some sort of ban on the practice, but such is the state of the medical system pending the implementation of that ban - if it is both enforceable and enforced.
• The above ban aside, "GPs have been asked to select one in every 100 of their patients to go on a list of those likely to die over the next 12 months."3
• Children and babies being dehydrated to death.4 They take days to die, with severe suffering, after their parents are coerced. Some, if they regain access to food and water, even survive, demonstrating that not all were untreatable.
• Some patients have taken to drinking from flower vases to get the water nurses will not give them.5
• Patients experiencing unnecessary waits.6

In Canada

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