“——— the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded that there was no justification for policies that denied patients cataract removal surgery until they could barely see. “
You might want to read that again—NICE are the good guys.
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They are part of the problem too. They don’t want to get rid of the national health system and go to a private system.
Not so. NICE is what we would call a Death Panel. It makes the decisions, on a nationwide basis, about which treatments are cost effective for given conditions. The ones that don’t make the cut are BANNED. Not nice.