Stephen Hawking likes his "Death Panel" Health Care just fine, thanks

From TPM here.

Turns out that the world's best-known and most health-challenged physicist thinks that his single-payer health care system works just fine.

"I wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high quality treatment without which I would not have survived." ---Stephen Hawking, August 11, 2009

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See this post for back story.