Too old to get lifesaving drugs: Anger at plan to deny treatment if you've had a 'fair innings'

The Daily Mail ^ | 17 Feb 2014 | JENNY HOPE and DANIEL MARTIN

[mandaladon]

Patients who have had a ‘fair innings’ could be denied life-saving drugs under proposed health reforms. The plans would mean experts taking into account whether there is a ‘wider societal benefit’ to giving a patient crucial medicines. The NHS rationing body, Nice, fears the Department of Health proposals could see younger people deemed a higher priority for drug treatments because they have more years ahead of them – potentially contributing more to the economy – than the elderly.

Doctors, MPs and campaigners last night condemned the plans as ‘barking mad’. The move will also fuel fears that the elderly are receiving a worse deal from the health service than the young.

Cancer charities have already warned that ‘cruel restrictions’ mean older patients have been denied medical treatment, regardless of a proper assessment of their fitness levels and how likely they could benefit from treatment. Sir Andrew Dillon, the head of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, said he was concerned about the new rules and feared they would lead to older patients being penalised in a ‘hard-nosed’ and ‘crude’ economic approach.

The reforms, which are being consulted on, would see new drugs assessed for the first time based partly on whether they would benefit society as a whole – not just the patient. For example, a drug that helped people to live longer in an expensive care home, or on welfare, might have a ‘negative’ social value not outweighed by the benefit to the individual, because such patients take more from society than they can put back. Sir Andrew said: ‘There are lots of people who adopt the fair-innings approach: “You’ve had 70 years of life – you’ve got to accept society is going to bias its investments in younger people.”

[Chode]

a ‘fair innings’ only the Brits could come up with that as a euphemism for it's your turn to die...

[jsanders2001]

> Once the productive class is gone, what do they intend to operate on? Just keep printing money until China takes over?

Hopefully eat their own...

[VerySadAmerican]

This will not happen. They would be killing off a big chunk of their base. And those young folks who would get the medicines have old relatives that they love.

[jsanders2001]

> I was just thinking of all the bilions of dollars we waste in this country on useless “programs” for the privileged “poor”.

Those “administration costs” are so high you know...

[RetiredTexasVet]

I doubt that they will withhold the drug ... it’s the one that do give you ... take this pill once in the morning with a meal and die.

[GeronL]

“Soylent Green is people!!”

or these days “Soylent Green is high in cholesterol!!!”

[Secret Agent Man]

if you think it ain’ t here now you’re naive.

[griswold3]

Ezekiel Emanuel based his ‘Complete Lives System’ on this, I’m sure.

[Eagles6]

You beat me to it! My thoughts exactly!

[Nowhere Man]

The people uttering these words have homes. Find them.

They have families. Find them.

They go shopping, out to dinner, the movies, etc. find out when and where they do these things.

Get in their faces, publicly. Give them no peace. Give their families no peace. Protest in front of their homes. Tell their kids that their mommy or daddy wants other peoples mommies, daddies, and grandparents to die.

If that doesn’t work the information learned can be used to implement more extreme measures.

My mother passed away from cancer so I'm glad she is out of the clutches of these evil people and in a much better place. BTW, think about this, the people who are denied life saving treatment or even treatment that would make their lives better like a new hip but are instead sentenced to a wheelchair as a cripple, these people have family and friends. How about if a Tony Soprano is denied healthcare? There is a noise at 2:30 AM, is it the neighbor's dog or cat or is it a capo and three soldiers outside? It's 10 PM, the phone rings, is it your kid being late or something else? I was writing a short story about this but put it on hiatus after Mom got sick, but I need to pick that up again. This is bad for our country and society.

[Pajamajan]

Death panels yaye! The dems said we need a health system just like the British NHS. This is the ultimate goal of the ACA.

[Little Ray]

Welcome to “duty to die.” Next step, compulsory “euthanasia.”

[null and void]

Get in their faces, publicly. Give them no peace. Give their families no peace. Protest in front of their homes.

Something like this?

‘Killer cops aren’t welcome here!’ Officer Who Murdered Kelly Thomas, Driven Out Of Restaurant

Works for me.

[Charles Martel]

I can’t wait ‘til some irate pensioner finds the family heirloom WWI Enfield bayonet and skewers a bureaucrat with it. If the Brits hurry, they might just beat us to such measures (but we’re closing the gap fast).

[Ticonderoga34]

Patients who have had a ‘fair innings’ could be denied life-saving drugs under proposed health reforms.

Under a strange coincidence, registered Republicans, gun owners, Christians and conservatives will be determined to have enough 'fair innings' and be out of outs under Obamacare.

On the other hand, all minorities and other stereotypical Democratic voters, like government workers and college faculty members will be judge to have many more 'innings' left no matter what their age.

Think I'm joking? Look at how the IRS is run under the Obama regime.

[4Liberty]

Death panels.
They make the choice. It’s not your money to allocate!!!!

[Mortrey]

“The people uttering these words have homes. Find them.”

THIS is what must be said, over and over and over again. Kudos.

If the enemy feels NO push-back, they feel entitled to make these insane remarks.

(I suggest everyone make note of where their congresscritters live—we pay their salaries for BURYING US.)

[CodeToad]

Liberals have always been about murder and death.