Senior NHS consultant neurologist: Britain's single-payer system killing up to 130,000 elderly patients a year

Ahhhhh... single-payer, government-run, healthcare. It's the ultimate dream of the modern left. As we've argued many times before, it's not because they have some deep-seated desire to offer "high quality care to everyone." It's because it will grant them expansive new powers in the areas they love most: taxation and social engineering. There is absolutely no political issue - from gun control, to welfare, to how far you walk or drive - that can't, in some way, be tied to the cost of health care. Single-payer is the authoritarian statist's holy grail because it will allow the feds to weasel their dirty little fingers into every single corner of your life.