Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Does a Story about Government-Run Healthcare Have a Happy Ending?

We've already addressed this issue in a different context, but this story is even more amusng. I'll resist the need for any (additional) awful puns, and I'll even admit I don't know for sure that these...um...services are financed by taxpayers (but that must be true since we're talking about the Netherlands, right?). But is this really such a big issue for the Dutch that the nurses need to mount a national campaign?

A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care. ...The union said in a statement Thursday that the campaign follows a complaint it had received in the last week from a 24-year-old woman who said a 42-year-old disabled man asked her to provide sexual services as part of his care at home. The young woman witnessed some of the man's other nurses offering him sexual gratification, the union said. When she refused to do the same, he tried to dismiss her on the grounds that she was unfit to provide care.

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