Remember all the controversy over Sarah Palin’s “death panels” concern about ObamaCare? It seems Great Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), a picture of our future here in America thanks to Obama’s re-election, may be making Palin’s warning come to pass. Quite the contrast to the glorification of the NHS that took place during the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (above):

UK DAILY MAIL: Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.

Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults. But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.

One doctor has admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the neonatal unit of one hospital alone. Writing in a leading medical journal, the physician revealed the process can take an average of ten days during which a baby becomes ‘smaller and shrunken’.

The LCP – on which 130,000 elderly and terminally-ill adult patients die each year – is now the subject of an independent inquiry ordered by ministers.

The investigation, which will include child patients, will look at whether cash payments to hospitals to hit death pathway targets have influenced doctors’ decisions.

Medical critics of the LCP insist it is impossible to say when a patient will die and as a result the LCP death becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. They say it is a form of euthanasia, used to clear hospital beds and save the NHS money. . . . Read More

Report: Investigation of “Death Pathways” underway in Great Britain “Used to Clear Hospital Beds and Save the National Health Service Money”