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'Distressed' elderly woman, 89, occupied an NHS bed for 6 MONTHS at a cost of £80,000 - despite being deemed fit for discharge

Most of the so-called bed blockers aren't kids, obese or otherwise.

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NHS BEDS CRISIS Toll of hospital ‘bed blocking’ rockets as 7,000 are filled by patients who should be discharged

Why they're suddenly blaming pediatric admissions is beyond me.

[Tax-chick]

Lord McColl of Dulwich is 84 years old, according to Wikipedia. It makes sense that a person who lived through the Depression, World War II, and the post-War doldrums would be gobsmacked by the size of children today, but that doesn’t change the real cost numbers for the medical system. In every country that keeps records, people in the last two years of life are the overwhelming consumers of medical care.