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Elderly face NHS discrimination under new UN death targets [coming soon!!]
The Telegraph ^ | 5/29/15 | Sarah Knapton

Posted on 05/28/2015 4:58:20 PM PDT by markomalley

The NHS will be forced to discriminate against the over 70s to meet ‘highly unethical’ UN health targets which seek to reduce premature deaths in younger people, senior medics have warned.

Under the proposed Sustainable Development Goals, UN member states must cut the number of deaths from diseases like cancer, stroke, diabetes and dementia by one third by 2030.

However because many are age-related illnesses people who succumb to those diseases from the age of 70 are not deemed to have died prematurely and so are not included in the target.

In an open letter published in The Lancet, an international group of ageing specialists say the new guideline sends out the message that health provision for younger groups must be prioritised at the expense of older people.

Prof Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, professor of social policy and international development at the University of East Anglia, and lead author of the letter, said: “This premature mortality target is highly unethical, since it unjustifiably discriminates against older people.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: deathpanels; nhs; obamacarefuture; sustainabledvmt; un
Sure am glad we won't have to worry about that here. After all, there are no death panels, are there? (/sarc)
1 posted on 05/28/2015 4:58:20 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

UN member states must cut ...

Or else what?


2 posted on 05/28/2015 4:59:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: markomalley

Dear God.


3 posted on 05/28/2015 5:07:59 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: markomalley

Seriously, the government of China should take it upon itself to build a new, upgraded United Nations building in Beijing. By the time it was completed, hopefully the US government will have changed enough to support the move.


4 posted on 05/28/2015 5:08:38 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: BenLurkin

Or else you’ll get a socialist frowny face sticker for wasting resources on spent, worn out, production units when the resources could be spent on healthy young ones and increasing their production...


5 posted on 05/28/2015 5:09:00 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: markomalley
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It says we are ordered to report to a disintegration chamber.

6 posted on 05/28/2015 5:16:48 PM PDT by JPG (Lefty reporters doing battle with Sen. Cruz will continue to be chewed-up and spit-out.)
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To: markomalley

Don't think of it as a death panel. Think of it as recycling.

7 posted on 05/28/2015 5:26:39 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: JPG

Armed...


8 posted on 05/28/2015 5:40:13 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: JPG

Poetic Justice. They deserve it because these are the children of the people that voted for socialized medicine in 1948 and who supported it all these years.

Chicken coming home and all that


9 posted on 05/28/2015 5:54:23 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: JPG
Coming to America with Obamacare Navigatoras in charge

Navigator: Your record shows a high incidence of racial microagression....

Navigator (to self)..."this desk job is easier on the knucles than polar bear hunting....a few click on the keyboard...

10 posted on 05/28/2015 6:01:04 PM PDT by spokeshave
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To: markomalley; All

Read the comments section. Some can’t wait to get a hold of property, so they can’t die soon enough for them.

I showed this to my lib Brit hubby who couldn’t believe it (even after I warned him). He lost his father to the NHS because he was ‘too old to treat’. I may have made a believer of him. Maybe.


11 posted on 05/28/2015 6:15:56 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Except this is just a warning from health chiefs, nowhere does it say the UK will act on this nonsense.

I am sorry your hubby had a bad NHS experience, on the other hand, even as a conservative, I have to say it saved the lives of both my parents. At least he and you(?) have had experience of it, most US critics haven’t, most haven’t even been to the UK!.


12 posted on 05/29/2015 5:52:02 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: markomalley

No, there aren’t. Despite the hype.

The Liverpool Pathway has been appallingly misunderstood and misrepresented in the US media. As is the NHS.

Anyone who tries to inject a bit of balanced criticism into FR threads on the NHS, despite some of us actually being British, usually gets called a denier or a socialist. Of which I am neither btw.


13 posted on 05/29/2015 5:54:35 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: KarlInOhio

Great film ,and good novel. The death scene is heartbreaking to watch, esp when you know Robinson was dying for real.


14 posted on 05/29/2015 5:55:35 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: markomalley

The souls of whoever obeys these death orders against the innocent are in danger. The death orders are going to become more and more aggressive and target more and more people as the globalist climate changers desire to severely decrease the human population on earth.


15 posted on 05/29/2015 8:31:05 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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