Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Government's Record in Providing 'Health Care'

U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital. ... U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in the United States - studies that often involved making healthy people sick.  ...

Read the full story at the Washington Post.