Swedish govt health care: off with his head!

  First something about the Swedish health care system and a warning to Dr. Donald Berwick, our new health czar over medicare (yes, that means YOU, baby boomer), who loves the idea of rationed care and says openly that he is "loves" the British health care system:

Like other nations with a single-payer system, Sweden has had to deal with the problem of ever-growing health care expenses causing a strain on government budgets.  It has dealt with this problem by rationing health care - instituting waiting lists for medical appointments and surgery.

  Hey, don't worry, the doctors said. It's just inflammation. So they sent him home.
  It's nice the way the doctors delicately used the word "removed" to describe a, um,  traumatic operation. They had a year to detect it but it came down to "removal" because they misdiagnosed it a year earlier. 
  Too busy, I guess, and, hey, the guy was 65. 
  Not that significant according to the QALY.

When he finally met with doctors at the hospital, the man was informed he had cancer and his penis would have to be removed.

It remains unclear if the man would have been able to keep his penis had the cancer been detected sooner.

  Britain's health care decision makers, AKA NICE, AKA newspeak,  quite matter of factly states that "no publicly funded healthcare system, including the NHS, can possibly pay for every new medical treatment which becomes available."