GUEST COLUMN : The great British push back
Posted: August 21, 2009 at 6:32 a.m.
The world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking would be dead if left in the hands of Britain's National Health Service (NHS). So declared Investor's Business Daily in its Aug. 3 editorial. The NHS would have allowed Hawking, a recent recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on cosmology and quantum gravity, to die long ago due to his disabling motor neuron disease because, so the argument goes, "the National Health Service would say the quality of life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."
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