Charlie Gard has nothing to do with single payer. In the UK, if the NHS won't fund something (normally because it doesn't work or is horrifically expensive - se

Charlie Gard has nothing to do with single payer. In the UK, if the NHS won't fund something (normally because it doesn't work or is horrifically expensive - see NICE for the gory details) you're free to go private. In Charlie Gard's case, the parents have raised the money to take him to the US for the pioneering 'treatment'. The court's barred them from taking him because they've ruled that doing so is not in his best interests, and that he should be allowed to die. Which is pretty damned unusual for the English courts, to be honest. And given he got a full hearing at the supreme court, and his own advocate, and it's not a matter of money, I'm inclined to believe the doctors and the judges. But even if you think they're wrong, it's still not about single payer.