Sometimes you have to just take your hat off to the ability of governments and their bureaucratic enforcers to reach for new heights of hypocrisy.
The Mexican government closed down the clinic where Coretta Scott King, wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, died last week. Seems this clinic, run by an American chiropractor, had the misfortune of admitting for treatment celebrity desperately ill with ovarian cancer, who then went and died before she even received treatment. All of a sudden, this clinic, which had been operating problem-free for nearly 20 years and which had passed government inspections as recently as last June, was deemed in violation of all kinds of rules and regulations. The clinic specialized in offering alternative therapies for cancer patients–therapies generally unavailable in the U.S. When it closed, its 20 patients, all Americans, were forced to head home, regardless of where they were in their treatment regimens.
Here is a country in which few officials have seen a bribe offer they didn’t like becoming holier-than-thou about protecting American patients from what it deems to be inappropriate health care. The only reason the Americans were at the clinic is because they felt American medicine had nothing more to offer them. What a terrible crime, to be looking for alternatives and exercising freedom of choice. And what a relief, to know that government officials are there "protecting" us.
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