Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Doctors are like walleyes: everybody wants one but there aren’t enough to go around, so we must ration them.

 Walleyes are rationed by license.  Medical care traditionally has been rationed by price.  But when the government pays, there is no price, so now Britain is rationing by morality.

 It should be obvious that obese people have more medical needs than fit people, and smokers more medical needs than non-smokers.  The new rationing cannot be medically based on need; instead, it must be morally based on reward.  The unspoken rational is that fat people and smokers are lazy and  stupid so they don’t deserve medical care.

 Before you start nodding, consider that when Hillary is elected, she might change it to “Conservatives are stupid and don’t deserve medical care.”

 If we shift to a political basis for deciding who lives and who dies . . . .

 Joe Doakes

Power is always a temptation.