Tuesday Linkage

■ As we’ve long documented here, Britain’s Much Vaunted National Health Service© has a fetish for offing innocent children:

“Coroner demands NHS 111 changes after six-year-old Sebastian Hibberd’s death“

The poor 6 year old was another victim of free health “care.”

Fortunately for Oliver Cameron, his parents were afforded a unique, lifesaving opportunity:

“[T]hanks to the tireless efforts of his parents and doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital, Oliver is alive and thriving today.”

He had been born with a non-cancerous tumor, the likes of which British doc’s were unable to treat.

#MedicalTourism tourism in action.

■ Meanwhile, on this side of The Pond, our northern neighbors, subject to whims and vagaries of CanuckCare©, seldom fare so fortuitously:

Canadian Medicare, our northern neighbor’s universal health care system, generally receives rave reviews from proponents of socialized health care, yet the Fraser Institute found that more than 63,000 Canadians left their country to have surgery in 2016. https://t.co/BnUwfDavYd

— Dutch Rojas (@DutchRojas) July 18, 2019

But hey: Free!

■ And finally, our friend Allison Bell alerts us to the latest Health Savings Account news:

IRS Notice 2019-45 will help HSA holders use high-deductible plans to pay for insulin, statins, etc. on a pre-deductible basis – and it shows that the IRS can tweak the HSA deductible rules by expanding the HDHP preventive services package. https://t.co/jRdhz8dd2j

— Allison Bell (@Think_Allison) July 18, 2019

Unfortunately, this will be of benefit only to those who own HSA-compliant plans, which of course means duplicate and unnecessarily expensive coverage for folks in ACA versions.

Once again I’ll ask: why must one own a specific type of insurance plan (or, indeed, any plan) to have an HSA?

(Yeah, I know)