Socialized Medicine - Equally Bad Care for All

England now has a Brilliant Idea:

Smokers and overweight people will be asked to sign contracts with their doctors to agree a programme to quit smoking and lose weight under radical plans being drawn up by the government.

Or else what? You just let them die on the front steps of the hospital?

Labour sources insisted last night that the plan, outlined in a Labour party policy document as part of preparations for the next general election manifesto, did not mean patients would be denied treatment if they refused to sign.

YET.

Here's an example of the efficacy of socialized medicine that I wrote about last week.

I wonder if John Russell was overweight and / or smoked.

At least nobody in England is suing over Oreos - yet.