Great Moments in Socialized Medicine

If you're planning a trip to Warsaw, better get a clean bill of health before you go, because you're not going to want to make a trip to the hospital over there.

WARSAW, Poland -- Prosecutors have charged two doctors and two ambulance workers with murder for letting patients die or killing them outright in order to collect kickbacks from funeral homes, officials said Wednesday.

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The two doctors were charged with a total of 14 counts of negligent homicide for allegedly letting patients die and taking money from undertakers, prosecutors said.

A 35-year-old ambulance crew member is accused of killing four patients with injections of a muscle relaxant and informing funeral homes of the deaths in exchange for a total of least $6,200, prosecutors said.

Strangely, the article concludes that this kind of abuse is simultaneously the result of too much government involvement and too little:

State officials have acknowledged the system is prone to corruption. They blame low pay for government-employed medical workers and a lack of laws regulating intense competition among funeral homes.